Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complement of some 125 teachers.... For several years we are going to have to rely upon these Volunteers and speaking on behalf of the government, we are very happy to do so." Attitudinal qualities have been identified in nations such as India, where a thoousand Volunteers now serve. The joint Secretary Planning and Peace Corps Co-ordinator of one Indian state writes, "It is in attitudes that the Volunteer can make his most significant contribution. We expect he would have ingenuity, initiative, and dedication...." And the role of specialists is doubly difficult, frequently combining the skills of profession with...
...there are two factors mitigating such a joint action by the Negroes and whites. First, the blacks don't want the whites. At the meeting in Los Angeles which first announced the boycott, white reporters were barred. Second, if Negroes like Greene are unwilling to give up the glory of an Olympic medal, then whites not immersed in the cause are even less likely to pass up the Games...
...among students. But the large majority of undergraduates and graduate students do not end up as teachers, and the Faculty should be more ready to accept this simple fact and to adjust its academic rules accordingly. For example, why should courses on public problems, taught by associates of the Joint Center for Urban Studies or the Institute of Politics, not be considered General Education...
...Joint Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom seemed an even less fruitful court of resort. Meeting there the day after Pueblo's seizure, as they have for more than 14 years of sterile harangue, the U.S. and North Korean representatives exchanged angry denunciations...
Several afternoons I talked my way into the briefings at the Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office in downtown Saigon. Here the press corps is given a daily rundown on U.S. air, ground, and sea action by an information officer from the appropriate service. All these men really do is call attention to 'typos' in the mimeographed dope sheets given to the reporters at the door. If there are no questions from the floor (they are raised only after important battles or rumors) the briefings (called the 4:45 follies since the credibility gap days) last only 15 or 20 minutes...