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...Should Go? The team has already found projects abroad that could use 5,000 corpsmen by July 1962. It advocates "cream of the crop" men and women, aged 20 to 30, who have specific skills needed in the host country. Unusually mature 18-year-olds would be acceptable, and also married couples if both had a skill. Applicants would have to pass severe screening, aimed at banning adventurers, dreamers, misanthropes and mercenaries. Corpsmen would get up to nine months' training, then serve two years. The pay: about $80 a month, or roughly what a U.S. Army private makes. Corpsmen...
...people at operational level, especially teachers. Half the projects cited by the Colorado team involve teaching English as a second language. Also needed: teachers of science, vocational skills, home economics, child care-and literacy, in a world that is two-fifths illiterate. In addition, LT.S. and U.N. experts need corpsmen to assist remote villages in farming, building, and even sports...
Last week in the Warwick fire station. the counter on Dr. Anderson's gun clicked off the 500,00cth shot that he and his corpsmen have given in the past six years. Soon after, Dr. Anderson had to quit and let a corpsman relieve him; the trigger ringer on his right hand, despite a golfer's glove, was too painfully blistered for him to carry...
...first time since South Korea be came a nation, Korean voters found no carbine-toting cops or hulking youth corpsmen around to "supervise" the vote. Of 1,532 candidates, only 50 dared openly to campaign as members of the onetime dominant Liberal Party of ex-President Syngman Rhee. But even this failed to appease the students still intoxicated with the sense of their own power, who seemed to think that mob rule was a good swap for Rhee repression. At Samchonpo, Yun-yang and Kumchon, student rowdies burned 44 ballot boxes. Explained one young student, stopped...
...Homestead A.F.B., home of the Strategic Air Command's 823rd Air Division, corpsmen and nurses carried the vaccine out to flight crews and ground crews in the alert areas to avoid any break in their availability...