Word: bennett
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Robert W. Bennett '62, the leader of next year's project, said at least 16 of the applicants would win final acceptance, about ten for the year and the remainder for the summer...
...addition to teaching much-needed English courses in Dar es Salaam and other major cities in Tanganyika, the Project hopes to place volunteer workers in hospitals, dispensaries, or public health programs across the country. Bennett said there might also be famine relief work such as two project members did during the summer...
Seven members of last summer's project are presently teaching in the East African country and another, David R. Ebel '62, is working as a civil servant for the Treasury Department of the Tanganyika Government, Bennett, who stayed to manage the relief program after the project's first summer in 1961 and ended up in charge of a camp for Batusi refugees from Ruanda, praised the freedom that the project offers its members. He also cited several students who have remained in Africa on their...
...Bennett emphasized that an extensive orientation program will be carried out during the year for all members of the project. Extra reading on Africa will be assigned and the project hopes to establish seminars on Tanganyika and related topics...
...written and performed by four Oxford-and Cambridge-educated Britons in their 20s, a quartet of high-IQ imps. Physically and intellectually these scholar-clowns could stock an eclectic aviary. Alan Bennett, a blond horn-rimmed owl, lectures on medieval history at Oxford. Jonathan Miller, who looks like an elongated ostrich and seems to be acrobattling his way through an imaginary soccer game, is a neuropathologist. Peter Cook, an unblinkingly phlegmatic penguin in tweeds, is a writer and editor. And Dudley Moore, who nestles like a pouter pigeon at the piano, is a musicologist, equally adept at organ and harpsichord...