Word: huts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most others participating in the HUT program, Prunier finds it as valuable to himself as to the students. The necessity to prepare extensively by reading the texts he assigns gives him "a good chance to come back to something I've neglected...
Unfortunately, HUT has not always received co-operation from school staffs. Although HUT's avowed purpose is service to the community by means of filling in where needed, and offering classes which might not otherwise be available to students, many school staffs still look upon the volunteers with suspicion...
...some school teachers the HUT volunteers represent an alien force, a group of students who have come to take away their jobs and keep their salaries down...
Most teachers now appreciate HUT's goals; the few who express antagonism are depriving their pupils of an opportunity they cannot get elsewhere...
...Floyd, be seein' you-in about two more years." He brushed off a Russian reporter who prodded him about the plight of U.S. Negroes: "Man, the U.S.A. is the best country in the world, counting yours. I ain't fighting off alligators and living in a mud hut." In the Olympic Village, he swarmed over foreign athletes, yelling "Say cheese!" while he snapped photos, swapped team badges, slapped backs, and winked at pretty girls. They loved...