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...laid the 167-mile railroad from Nimba to Buchanan and built a seaport there from breakwater up. The Netherlands' Phillips installed an electronic rail-traffic control system; Krupp made the ore-handling equipment. Aided by a maze of conveyor belts and closed-circuit TV control panels, LAMCO can load ore into a ship in less than nine hours after it has been mined. At the foot of Mount Nimba has grown up Liberia's third largest community, where most of the company's 470 foreign staff and their families live in comfortable houses designed in Swedish modern...
Slightly more useful information in the report concerned "manpower input." Because of the heavy work load an additional full-time appointment was made...
...plan calls for an eight-hour school day with no set course load. A student would finish a subject when his teacher was satisfied that he had mastered it, thereby allowing bright students to complete the normal four-year program in two or three years...
Relays of assistant secretaries mounted the Washington-to-New York air shut tle to keep Rusk briefed on new devel opments, and fully a third of his normal load of cables from U.S. embassies abroad was shunted to New York for him to read there...
Capt. Edward A. Rodgers, director of the NROTC program here, said that he would "weigh carefully" any suggestions the students make. Although he has no power to reduce the course load, Rogers said he would "send through channels" any suggestions regarding curricula that have merit...