Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadian government is having similar thoughts after four years of hostile publicity and occasional exaggerations about the hunt. In 1964, a Quebec TV crew filmed it to glorify the hardy Newfoundland swilers; the finished product horrified Canadians instead (although swilers angrily maintain that scenes of seals being skinned alive were staged by the TV men). Another film is being shown around the world by a determined Canadian S.P.C.A. executive named Brian Davies. It has provoked emotional stories in the world press, and something close to an international crusade to halt the hunt. Angry letters and petitions flood Ottawa, and demonstrators...
...formed cooperatives to make bricks and build roads. In 38 communities in the Jequitinhonha valley, the teams taught 52 hygiene courses, helped construct 300 septic tanks, pulled 30,000 teeth and administered vaccine shots to 150,000 persons. At an abandoned road-construction camp in north-central Brazil, one crew even started a town called Vila Rondón that now boasts a new school and other municipal services for 5,000 people...
Convinced of the program's merit, the government recently decreed that Rondónists will be given preference in hiring for federal jobs in the interior. The students approve too: 15,000 applied for the 4,500 places this year, and one-fifth of the 1969 crew has signed up to return next year. Beyond its practical effects on the country's interior, Projeto Rondón is also reconciling many Brazilian students with their government, despite its dictatorial tendencies. For one thing, both sides now have a common purpose that rises above political passions. For another...
...astronauts settled back for one of the most relaxed periods of any manned space flight to date, taking rest periods of ten hours or more. "The big events of today," cracked a NASA official on Sunday, "are the sleep cycle and the wake-up period." On Monday, when the crew failed to call Houston at the scheduled hour, flight controllers simply allowed them to sleep on for two more hours...
...strong in crew, track, tennis, an dsoftball in the Spring, and I'm fairly confident we're going to win the overall Straus--you can quote me on that," he said. STANDING AS OF MARCH 17 STRAUS POINT TOTALS Leverett 543 1/2 Eliot 520 1/2 Quincy 445 Kirkland 440 Lowell 434 1/2 Winthrop 431 Dunster 430 1/2 Adams 325 1/2 Dudley 264 1/2 "A" BASKETBALL W L PTS Winthrop 14 2 28 Dudley 12 4 24 Eliot 10 6 20 Adams 10 4 20 Leverett 6 9 14 Kirkland 7 6 14 Dunster 6 9 12 Lowell...