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...museums for antiquated jalopies, are now clogged with gleaming SEATs, the Spanish-made version of the Italian Fiat. The cars are still largely for the rich; a better index to the general improvement is the horde of buzzing motor scooters steered dauntlessly through the city streets by clerks, factory foremen, salesmen, shopkeepers - the nucleus of the new middle class slowly taking shape in Spain...
...Bedouin foremen and work leaders will be trained by CARE and the United States Overseas Mission in Jordan to work with the volunteers in supervising the actual construction. The second phase of the project, instruction of the Bedouins in the use of such unfamiliar facilities as a social center and clinic, will be done by the students in informal classes under CARE supervision...
...many countries, said Berg, the chief need is teachers for secondary schools, to train stenographers, clerks, foremen, "the non-commissioned officers of modern society." But Berg warned that African secondary education, though now reaching a small group, is "infinitely better than our own," and that new teachers-for languages, science and mathematics-would in many cases need Masters degrees...
Next morning, the repaired ventilators were pumping air back into the tunnel, but now the diggers were hampered by water, rising chest-high at the rock face. Grimly, nine foremen ordered the rescue teams out for fear they, too, might be trapped if the water-weakened shaft walls collapsed. Now the only hope was a special high-speed drill rushed down from the northern Transvaal 300 miles away to punch a 13-in. air and food hole straight down from the surface to the entombed men. But the drill hit solid rock 80 feet down, slowing...
...countries. Visão (circ. 45,886), a sister publication to Visión, is a Portuguese-language news weekly in Brazil. In addition, the company has a half interest in Semana, a news weekly published in Bogota, Colombia, owns the profitable business-pamphleteering ("Just Between Office Girls") National Foremen's Institute...