Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizen trained to go overseas with brains, skill and understanding. In the biggest effort so far, Washington's American University announced a six-week course sponsored by the 70-corporation Business Council for International Understanding, which will train any U.S. executive (and wife) before he tackles a foreign assignment. Aims: a working knowledge of the new culture and language, an ability to explain and defend the U.S. abroad, expert tutoring from State Department officials. "Long overdue," said Republic Steel (and B.C.I.U. Policy Board) Chairman Charles M. White. "It could mean the end of the overseas misfit...
...smaller but deeper scale is the new course (tuition: $1,000) at Syracuse University's Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, which is aimed at training U.S. graduate students for foreign jobs with business and Government. Last week Maxwell's current eight students were finishing up three months' intensive study of U.S. society and policy, Italian culture and language. They will soon go to Rome for four more months of living with Italian families and adapting their skills (economics, journalism, forestry) to the country...
Outbound. Even more practical are programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Montana State College. Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs runs short courses for foreign-bound executives; it also puts graduate students to work for two or three months in international agencies. Montana's ten graduate students (tuition: $500) are not only sharpening their specialties in the classroom. Next month they will put them to grass-roots work by living among the state's Cheyenne Indians and next winter in a Mexican village. The most ambitious scheme of all is planned by Manhattan...
...Relations. Even so. Protestant leaders are confident that Orthodoxy is warming up to the World Council. And the climate of Rhodes gave hope for even better relations. The two Russian observers-round-faced, balding Viktor S. Alexeev, 33, a layman on the staff of the Moscow patriarchate's foreign affairs department, and dark, beaky Archpriest Vitaly M. Borovoy, 43, professor of ecclesiastical history at Leningrad Theological Academy, had already spent three weeks studying the World Council at its headquarters in Geneva, and a delegation of W.C.C. leaders will return the visit in Moscow next December. Said the World Council...
...number of jobless workers in steel-related industries has risen to about 125,000-60% in railroads and coal mining-and 75,000 of them have applied for unemployment aid. But there is not yet any shortage of steel for defense plants, and none looms in the near future. Foreign steelmakers were supplying part of the demand, used the situation to boost their prices-normally $30 to $40 per ton below U.S. mill prices-to the U.S. level or higher...