Word: work
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...scientific mind a generation ago, but this is no longer the case. Some 25% of Wheaton College's 1,878 students are majoring in science, at least 200 graduates are M.D.s, and 74 have gone on to earn Ph.D.s in the physical or biological sciences. Many faculty members work on projects sponsored by (among others) the Atomic Energy Commission...
...Eskimos at Grandview Hills No. 1 are the first who ever worked on an oil rig. They were hired because of the difficulty of recruiting white workers, mostly married, for long term work so far north. Three were taken on last summer and flown south for training on Alberta rigs. One went back to muskrat trapping, but the other two form the nucleus of the six-man Eskimo contingent on the well...
...These are men like any other man," says Toolpusher Doug Parker. "They learn quickly and work well." The Eskimos have full acceptance in the two bunkhouses, the mess hall and recreation hut, where "Little Joe" Panuktuluk, 19, is undisputed card-trick and cribbage champ. Formerly a reindeer herder, Panuktuluk aches to go south. He speaks often of the world he has never seen: "The long highways, the buildings with rooms that go up and down, the cows and horses and the people that are too many to count...
...seven years since Ike succeeded him in the White House. Plain-talked Harry: "I've always been fond of Ike, as you'll find when my book [Mr. Citizen'] comes out, but I'm so happy he had to fire Sherman Adams and go to work...
...Conductor Newell Jenkins' Clarion Concerts, which for two years have made a distinguished name by searching out musical curiosa, in a Town Hall concert featured Alessandro Scarlatti's rarely performed oratorio, II Martirio di Sant' Orsola. An unpretentious work, it had little true dramatic tension but was supported by a vocal latticework of wonderful warmth, tenderness and transparency. Elsewhere on the program. Conductor Jenkins exhumed a wonderfully flourishing Trumpet Suite by 17th century English Composer Jeremiah Clarke, and played Mexican Composer Carlos Chavez' Symphony No. 5, a propulsively rhythmic work for strings that ran hard...