Word: assist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLOMBIA Volunteers will work throughout the country with trained Colombian co-workers in community development teams to assist the Colombian Ministry of Government, Division of Community Action. Architects and engineers will be versed in community action, but will work in their professional capacities...
...JAMAICA Volunteers will assist the Ministries of Education, Agriculture and Development and Welfare in communities throughout the country. Depending on backgrounds, they will be associate members of the University of West Indies in pre-primary schools, will work in greater and more effective utilization of educational television, will teach in youth camps, or will work to increase the number and effectiveness...
...film follows the volunteers as they go about their daily tasks in a small Indian village. A hand-held camera provides several engaging scenes of candid shots as the volunteers teach school, help develop a poultry farm, or assist at a village clinic. The camera fixes on the volunteers' faces as they struggle to communicate the meaning of Gulliver's Travels, then shifts to the faces of the young Indians, intent, curious, and often amused...
...short of the inspirational. While visibly concerned with keeping orchestra and soloist together, he allowed them repeatedly to part company, primarily in the second movement. Orchestral climaxes seemed halfhearted, and the solo playing (that of cellist Jules Eskin) almost mediocre. For all his apparent courtesy, Leinsdorf did little to assist the pianist in matters of detail, and in several instances appeared to intimidate Indjic into hasty exits...
Several weeks ago, she said, the Cambridge Red Cross was asked by a student in the Boston area to organize a blood drive for North Vietnam. The request was refused, Miss Grace explained, because the American Red Cross exists "primarily to assist the American people." She said that the North Vietnamese could appeal to the International Red Cross for blood...