Word: orals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...career ambassadors are the elite of the elite that is the U.S. Foreign Service, which has 3,750 officers chosen upon entry by tough oral, written, physical and psychological tests. About one-third hold advanced degrees. State makes an effort to get applicants from all over the U.S.; nonetheless, about three-fourths come from the Northeastern colleges in the blue blood tradition that in other years enlisted such foreign service pros as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Outerbridge Horsey and Ambassador to Ecuador Wymberley DeRenne Coerr. The average FSO is 42 years old, earns $13,000 a year, has served two-thirds...
...upper-level General Education courses: a hodge-podge of brilliant courses, that provide general education by any definition, and very narrow all-but-departmental courses. Someone is going to have to go over the roster of these courses carefully and decide whether the "History of the Book," "Narrative in Oral Literature," or "The Planets: Their Environments and Inhabitants" should be permitted to remain on a list of courses that can satisfy the General Education requirement. If the focus of the General Education program is to be shifted towards the upper level and towards the junior and senior years, it would...
...compromise bill, which was passed by a vote of 320 to 69 in the House and an oral acceptance in the Senate, provides an over-all quota of 170,000 immigrants annually from countries outside the Western Hemisphere. No more than 20,000 a year may come from any one country...
...with all the red-eyed energy of the life it describes. Jim McCauley wrote as he talked, and he talked Texas with a wild and wheezy wit that makes these pages twang as they turn, and sounds like Will Rogers when he still smelled of horse. His story is oral literature at its best. Holler Calf Rope. "It was natural for me to be mean," McCauley confesses contentedly, and at 14 he was much too mean for East Texas. One day he tangled with an older and stronger boy. "I was about ready to holler calf rope when his knife...
Appointed to 15-year terms by the President, COMA judges automatically review all sentences involving death and all sentences involving flag officers. They accept or reject other appeals as they see fit, hear 30-minute oral arguments, and issue written opinions on "decision days" (Fridays...