Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee for a Youth Service Program, the poll is designed to find out how many undergraduates are interested in serving in the Corps, how the prospects of being drafted--or receiving an exemption--will influence their decision, and what aspects of the program appeal to them most...
...Ashby Commission proposed a plan which it called "LEAP"--Loan-Educational Aid Program. Under the plan, the Nigerian government would send natives to colleges in the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth countries, and the United States, and at the same time would import British and American teachers to supply existing needs...
Although in later installments (previewed last week for the press) the program fills the air with Messerschmitts and Supermarine Spitfires, shows Panzer tracks across the tulip beds of The Netherlands and bomb explosions muffled in the soft sands of Dunkirk, the series is much more than newsreel shots and selected quotes. Its staff of nearly 250 has also collected brief, extraordinary commentaries from the low and the mighty of the Churchill years-housewives. Tommies, Clement Attlee, Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing...
With sales dwindling, the entire appliance industry is in the midst of an ambitious program to improve quality. "I'm not saying the whole thing is lousy," explains one Norge executive, "but the automatic washer is probably more susceptible to service than any other appliance in the home." He speaks from rueful personal experience. For years there was no formal exchange between Norge's service department and its engineers, and chronic complaints never filtered back to the machine designers-a gap since remedied. Maytag decided to drop annual model changes, use the savings for better quality control...
...refused the New Haven a 10% commuter fare rise already granted by three other states, changed its mind and approved the increases. So confident was President Alpert that tax relief now would be "forthcoming early in 1961" that he grandly ordered the road's car-washing and cleaning program, long since cut to a minimum, to be speeded up immediately to put passengers in a happier mood...