Word: millikan
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Recognizing that however the ISYA is administered it will experience some failures, Millikan suggests that it be administered by a supervisory board rather than a large, centralized agency responsible for all its activities. Although this board would establish general standards for selection, orientation, and actual field work, it would allow private organizations to work pretty much on their own, Millikan said...
...Millikan noted that the board would be unable to make certain that the various private agencies conform to its standards. "One of the costs of my program," he admitted, "is that some of the ISYA groups aren't going to be very good...
...ISYA should limit itself to about 500 young people during its first several years. Millikan said: fully expanded, it should include a group of several thousand, but no more. In his view, the program is designed to teach specific skills to people in underdeveloped countries-- not to constitute a huge labor force, as some people have suggested...
Because the demand to enter the program probably will far exceed the available openings, Millikan sees the criteria for selection as one of the keys to its success. He recommends that only college graduates be accepted, at least during the program's first years. Their selection, he says, should be based partly upon scholastic achievement and partly upon personality assessments. But because academic standards vary greatly throughout the country, some kind of sectional quota system may have to supplement the actual selection criteria...
...insure that the ISYA does not be come a weapon of the cold war, Millikan said, the Administration's proposal must be worded with extreme care; and then this country must continue to show that it is serious in its desire to cooperate. Discussing the proposals in his report, he said yesterday that the United States should issue a statement welcoming Soviet assistance: "The best way of 'pulling their teeth' is to show that our chief interest is in getting the job done...