Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clouds. Covering the booby-trapped countryside in every kind of conveyance from Lambrettas to Land Rovers, they dig sewers and teach hygiene, plant crops and harvest friendship, build schools and instruct Vietnamese in carpentry or masonry in the process. Often they have to overcome U.S. red tape and age-old Vietnamese traditions along the way. One I.V.S.er, 28-year-old Paul Lukitsch of Milwaukee, discovered a U.S. AID-provided wheat thresher that the Vietnamese, ignorant of its workings, had not even uncrated. After "liberating" the machine, Lukitsch modified it for rice harvesting in the Delta, and reduced the threshing time...
...support I.V.S., its basic funding-about $1.5 million annually-comes from the U.S. AID. From this, the two-year volunteers receive $80 a month-less than the salary of an Army private-plus a small clothing and vacation allowance. After negotiations with the Asia Foundation for $2,000 to build a summer school and buy books for the Vietnamese, l.V.S.ers voted down the grant when it was disclosed that the foundation had received funds from...
...Engins Matra, a missile company that recently won the $25 million, nine-nation ESRO (for European Space Research Organization) contract to build a Continental satellite. Besides its space activities, Matra has organized an auto subsidiary that will race cars at Le Mans this year; is already producing a commercial sports model that drew raves at the last Geneva Auto Show...
...planning to rest on her laurels. In the future, she plans to build an entire room in her colossal style, and perhaps eventually-who knows?-a whole mansion. "Now that I'm economically free-my God! There's nothing I can't use," she exclaims. "Plastic, Plexiglas, metal-you'd think I've lived all this time just for these new materials." She has already built several transparent structures with glass and Plexiglas. "Who wants to live in the past?" she asks. "Man must face up to himself. I like to build my own environment...
...Since before recorded history, Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers," was the gateway between East and West; it was marched over, fought over, civilized and reduced to ashes by a dozen different peoples. The treasures contained in the Iraq Museum's five spacious, well-lit and air-conditioned buildings therefore trace an unequaled pageant of man's patient attempts to build and rebuild that ephemeral thing called civilization...