Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Thin Line. Today some 1,500 young Filipinos work for PACD. The requirements are stiff: out of 100 to apply, only eight pass the written exam, and of these only four, on the average, are selected. To avoid a handout psychology, Binamira gets villagers to contribute up to half the cost of each project, in goods or services. Result: the actual cash spent goes a long way. One village built its own copra-drying plant, used part of the profit to add two classrooms to the local school...
...wears a white coat as a Fontainebleau Hotel room wait er; former Supreme Court Justice Jose Cabezas is a fruit-plant shipping clerk; Prensa Libre's onetime personnel director. Diego Gonzalez, 42. sorts soda bottles in a supermarket for 70? an hour and is glad to have the work. "We get $6 to $8 a day," said a former customs officer who finds casual work on the docks. "We split with the others, of course." A surgeon and his family live off the wages of their 14-year-old son, who is a printer's devil...
...long ago, and a secretary rushed in with a rumor that in ten minutes the building would go up in smoke. Grinned Redmond: "What color?" At the two nearly deserted schools that took in token Negroes (three in one; one in the other), he keeps idle teachers at work every day planning and preparing lessons...
...culture" gap between scientists and nonscientists, Sir Charles is qualified to protest: he was a physicist long before he became Britain's most knowledgeable novelist of top-level science and politics (The New Men, The Masters, The Affair); he was knighted not for literature but for his work as chief organizer of scientists in the World War II Ministry of Labor. To illustrate his point, he said last week, "The best I can do is tell a story...
...asphalt playgrounds, backyard lawns, city streets, municipal parks and seaside beaches, the newest sports craze in the U.S. is the old game of touch football. The sport that once belonged to the nation's scurrying small fry has suddenly been borrowed by grownups with a yen to work off energy, ease aging legs into shape, sweat out a hangover, or realize Mittyesque dreams of gridiron glory. Touch has lately become an obsession with college kids, wheezing gaffers, giggling secretaries-and, of course, the entire clan of President-elect John F. Kennedy, who, according to old opponents, possesses "the best...