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Some three miles north of the airport, in the village of Berg, Mrs. Joseph Verhoeven saw the plane pitch and yaw. "It was so low," she said, "I could see people looking at me from inside the plane and gesturing. I held my hand up to them. Then the airplane stopped right in the air. It was as if it were hanging there on something. The whole thing was shaking terribly, as if it were struggling to get started moving again. But something was holding it back. Then an amazing thing happened. The plane began to point...
...four-day conference will deal mainly with Algerian culture and heritage, said organizer Alex Korns '62, and NSA representative Don Clifford. Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy House, and Elliot J. Berg, teaching fellow in Economics, will address the group...
...nations, as Elliot Berg (another local peace corps sponsor) has said, need "teachers, not doers," and this is precisely what the University's program would provide--as the individual nation wants them and is willing to pay their salaries. The University's financial participation would probably be limited to indoctrination and travel expenses. Representatives of Western Nigeria and Kenya have expressed interest in the plan on this basis...
...youth service program, according a Berg, must concentrate on the schools rather than on construction or manual labor. Africa needs "teachers, not doers," he emphasized, and the secondary schools, which provide the "crucial layer of people with intermediate skills," are the great bottleneck in the continent's development...
...most African nations, the personnel problem at the secondary school level is critical, Berg added. The youth corps must try to hit specifically at this problem and should not become a "massive work camp" for idealistic Americans...