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Religious organizations sponsor many good work camps, although of a more limited appeal. These include World Council of Churches, which has work camps in Japan and Assam (at an estimated cost of $1500) in addition to European camps, and the Congregational Christian Service Committee, and the Presbyterian Work Camps, both working through the World Council. The longest work camp, which lasts three months, is sponsored by the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Salaries in this case cover housing and living expenses...
Lieut. General Lewis A. Pick, the engineers' white-haired chief, builder of World War II's famed Ledo Road ("Pick's Pike") through Assam and Burma, came before the Senate subcommittee to present the defense. Said he: There was "confusion" in the program, but the Engineers have ordered construction firms to straighten things out; the job will be cornpleted "in an efficient manner." Considering the Air Force's hurry-up order for the bases and remoteness of the sites, a pretty good job has been done. A wage premium was necessary to recruit...
...colonel and Theresa believe that their own ecological niche, the Mallophaga, contains enough scientific nourishment to support them indefinitely. This year they plan to visit India and Assam. Many new lice are awaiting them there, though political instability, as the colonel remarks regretfully, makes it more difficult for them to reach the lousy birds...
...Heaviest earthquake toll since the Assam quake of 1950 (TIME, Sept...
Textbooks will go to the Salzburg Seminar, Athens College in Greece, and Assam University in India, to teach students to read English...