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...They seem to regard a tour of duty in Viet Nam as the most challenging, most demanding and most satisfying experience that anyone can find in the world today," says Sam Simpson, chief recruiter for the Agency for International Development's Far East bureau. Indeed, after a tour in Viet Nam, 64% of old AID hands ask to be sent back-a higher percentage of veterans who want to stay on than in any of the 77 other countries with AID missions...
...Cronkite went to Moscow for two grim years as U.P. bureau chief. Back in the U.S., he was offered a job as a KMBC radio correspondent in Washington. The pay was good, but Cronkite was dubious. "News is a newspaper's business," he bluntly told KMBC, "and it isn't radio's business." He finally accepted, though, at double his U.P. salary, which, after ten years, was still only $125 a week. When the Korean war broke out, he was hired by CBS and made an impromptu TV debut giving a lecture on the war, complete with...
...Belt's opponents are becoming convinced that the Institute's stand carries heavy weight at all levels of government. One man, for example, said of a recent meeting with Rex Whitton, head of the Federal Bureau of Roads: "We were in his office five minutes, and he asked what is M.I.T.'s position...
Careless Reporting. For all his complaints, Krock has no intention of retiring from his longtime job of watching the world around him with a critical eye. He turned down all offers to organize farewell parties; he will keep his office in the Times bureau. And there he plans to continue with his two-finger typing. What he will produce, he says, is uncertain. For one thing, he has not made up his mind whether it is proper for him to write his memoirs. Besides, "I'm lazy as hell and have been all my life. I'm mentally...
...Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife has placed the whooping crane on its "Rare and Endangered" list and is studying ways of breeding it in captivity. Mrs. McNulty, a freelance writer and the widow of Novelist John McNulty (Third Avenue, New York), avoids polemics but not passion as she examines the history of human indifference and hostility that conspired for so long against the whooping crane. She adds suspense to the story, too, as she traces the efforts of conservationists to locate the big birds' nesting regions in the Canadian far north and provide them with wintering grounds...