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...fellows will meet weekly with a university advisor to plan their work. The meetings are designed to acquaint the teachers, most of whom are from the social sciences or humanities, with scholars from all disciplines...
Radcliffe will offer in January a special course designed for wives of business executives. The purpose of the program, "The Understanding of Management," is to acquaint women with some of the functions of a business organization...
...successful was his chieftainship that Luthuli entered politics wholeheartedly, became a member of the Native Representative Council, an advisory group supposed to acquaint the white government with the views of South Africa's blacks. Fed up with the bogus paternalism of this arrangement, Luthuli joined the African National Congress, in 1952 helped launch a nationwide passive-resistance campaign against the color bar. Reacting immediately to this defiance, the government jailed 8,000 Africans and nonwhites, stripped Luthuli of his chieftainship. By now a national figure, Luthuli was elected president of the African National Congress, urged a policy of nonviolent...
...purpose of the course, according to Mrs. Diggory Venn, Director, is to acquaint neophyte publishers with all phases of the publishing world...
...spectacle of a Peace Corps "boot camp" in Puerto Rico supervised by an athletic director, of all people, is nothing short of ludicrous. Nor is the imposing list of athletic skills listed on the Peace Corps application blank. If the purpose of the Puerto Rico camp is merely to acquaint the recruit with the sights, sounds, and smells of a tropical climate, why not begin the process of acclimation in the country to which he is assigned? The expense incurred by shipping back those individuals who cannot adjust to the physical environment cannot possibly equal that of operating a permanent...