Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...master's degree in engineering and a doctorate in international relations. His thesis: "National Technology and International Politics." Assigned to Viet Nam last July as deputy commander of U.S. forces under General Creighton Abrams, he was temporarily brought home at Nixon's request last December to help the incoming Administration formulate its defense policy. When he takes over in Brussels in July, he should provide the President and the alliance with a strong if muted voice, sensitive ears and a fine sense of diplomatic niceties...
...city council and some 500 protesters in a march on the statehouse in Trenton, pleading for increased state aid. Back home, the council voted to keep the museum and the libraries open for the rest of the year-but faces the prospect of a stiff tax increase if outside help is not forthcoming...
...subsequent visits, in his words, "we became very fond of each other." Last month, when Connock returned to Poland, security agents picked him up, told him "you break up families," and warned that he might be permanently expelled from the country. They asked Connock to help identify British agents in Poland; he signed a statement of cooperation, then reported the whole affair to the British government, his wife, and his editor. Instead of being shifted to other work on the paper as he had expected, he was fired, and last week was still looking...
Working in groups of up to twelve, the Rondónists gave medical help and teaching assistance, provided engineering expertise, 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...
...does Righter help them, once they have straightened out? "Suppose you're an actor and you're offered three different scripts at once. How do you make a choice via astrology? It isn't difficult; you look at the aspects. If you have a beautiful Venus aspect, I tell you to take the romantic part. If you have a Mars and Saturn aspect, I tell you to take the part in which there is a lot of fighting and bloodshed...