Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Censorship in all forms is naturally an odious thing, but in this case the presumptuousness of an American President who wants to keep his life his own is absolutely inexcusable.
A forum on the "peace corps" attracted an audience of almost 150 people at Boylston Hall Saturday morning, despite limited publicity and the early hour of 10 a.m.
Dean Monro, Elliot J. Berg, instructor in Economics, and Paul E. Sigmund, instructor in Government, discussed in a wide-ranging two-hour session the genesis of the "peace corps" idea, the needs of the emergent nations that would be served, and the specific pilot program under consideration at the University...
The concept of youth service in under-developed areas, Monro said, is "one of the most exciting adventures in political thinking" of the past 20 years. It involves "the responsibility and public service that are at the heart of the democratic process."
Any youth service program, according a Berg, must concentrate on the schools rather than on construction or manual labor. Africa needs "teachers, not doers," he emphasized, and the secondary schools, which provide the "crucial layer of people with intermediate skills," are the great bottleneck in the continent's development.