Word: instructional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CONELRAD is an abbreviation for Control of Electromagnetic Radiation. It is an emergency communications system in which all commercial broadcast stations will leave the air except those assigned to instruct the public at 640 and 1,240 kilocycles. It is intended to nullify enemy equipment that uses radio signals to pinpoint targets...
Several other PBH committees deal with educational problems in Cambridge. While a tutors committee assists poor students in local high schools, the special education program offers remedial reading courses at PBH itself. Harvard undergraduate teachers (HUT) help in classroom teaching, instruct seminars for gifted students, lead extra-curricular activities at Cambridge High and Latin School...
...master prepared a message describing the symptoms and the treatment already given, and concluding: "Please instruct therapy." He ordered "Sparks" to send it to MEDRAD CIRM ROME. With that address, the radio dispatch took precedence over all traffic except S O S. On the second floor of an old yellow building in the center of Rome, an Italian navy radioman handed the message at once to the medical officer on duty...
...drop everything this summer and go down to the Riviera to help them. We would live the way they do, eat the food they do, share their homes and show them that an American is not too proud to become one of them. We would be willing to instruct the Rothschilds in basic money problems. We could show Mr. Onassis how to build tankers cheaply out of plywood, and the Aga Khan how to use the sea as a source of food. We would instruct the women how to make the most of their Diors and Balenciagas...
...doctors also criticized parents who instruct children that the "desire to win" is more important than simple participation. Said Pittsburgh's Dr. Macdonald: "The only thing really wrong with children's competitive athletics is the adults who run them...