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...Russian Embassy in London. "He had qualities not normally found in a Russian officer in this country. His English was good and he was keen to meet people. He drank a good deal, however, ad was something of a ladies' man." Enter Christine Keeler who was "employed at the Murray Cabaret Club as a show girl which involved, as she put it, just walking around with no clothes on....She had undoubted physical attractions...
Negotiations for the Brazil project went ahead anyway, Lapa volunteer Jim Murray, 32, from St. Paul, Minn., had the impression that "the whole thing was a big political move by President Joao Goulart. Having the Peace Corps here is a political advantage to Brazil. Goulart was in a hurry to get as many down here as possible. When we arrived, naturally many of us didn't have work...
...Peace Corps administration was also guilty of careless selection and a casual training program. Every volunteer is selected in a "practical" field--based on a very general aptitude test, outside recomendations, and the volunteer's past experience. Volunteer Jim Murray tried to convince the Peace Corps all through training that he was not a radio man despite what the IBM machine said. On his application he had listed his brief experience at a radio operator the Army. He says he knows enough about radios to turn them on and off. When he protested his placement to a Peace Corps official...
Training at Oklahoma, and later at Muscle Shoals, had a tinge of the absurd. Still classified as a radio mechanic, Murray was confronted with some TVA electrical machinery and told to work on it for practice. "It was ridiculous--I grabbed my Portugese book and took off," said Murray. Of a similar cursory nature was the training for the geologists. They got to look at one well-rig in operation. But it was hands off, according to Chase...
WHRB elected Charles A. Murray '65 its new president at a meeting last week, the station announced yesterday...