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Taking Favors. The first difficulty developed after Washington's International Cooperation Administration bought and shipped $1,500,000 worth of road-building and repairing equipment and signed up an American engineering firm to teach Laotians how to operate the machinery. But the engineers arrived to find that, without Washington's knowledge, the local ICA mission had arranged for a Bangkok company, Universal Construction Co., to handle the job. One explanation emerged in testimony last week before a House subcommittee; Edward T. McNamara, husky ICA public-works officer in Laos from 1955 to 1957, admitted receiving stock and cash...
...this summer, will spend next school year learning his job under Davis. The school that he will take over in September 1960 now has 1,050 students, a healthy endowment of $1.6 million (contributed mostly by Greek-Americans, partly by Athenian Greeks), and a spectacular, 35-acre mountain campus. Teaching, done mostly in Greek, follows roughly the curriculum prescribed by the nation's Ministry of Education, including instruction in the Greek Orthodox religion. But the school is not an austere learning factory, as most Greek academies are. President Davis has spread the six-year Greek secondary-school program through...
Other plans for HUT expansion include recruiting student teachers from the Law School, the School of Education, and the GSAS. Wellesley College students will also be asked to participate and teach in high schools in Needham, Lexington, and Wayland...
Richard S. Dole G.Ed., has recently decided to become a missionary in Africa and teach at American mission schools in Angola, Portuguese, West Africa...
Dole will either become a primary school superintendent or teach in secondary school...