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Although the full text of his memorandum has not yet been made public, Millikan discussed some of his ideas with reporters on Saturday and expanded on them in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
...report, Millikan recommended that a series of "pilot projects" be launched in the near future; when interviewed yesterday, he said that the Harvard "youth corps" plan was the sort of project he had in mind...
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...