Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort too thinly, thus failing to concentrate on those people most eager to learn. Rene Maheu, an ever-optimistic former French philosophy professor and now Director General of UNESCO, reported on "a turning point in the struggle against illiteracy," whereby in 1966 UNESCO will organize at least eight pilot projects stressing selectivity. The United Nations Special Fund is expected to contribute $24 million to the program. The new African state of Mali, for example, wants to make 100,000 cotton and rice farmers literate to increase their productivity...
Clever Ape. His luck finally turned when his work struck the fancy of Danny Thomas, who made him the director of his show, later elevated him to coproducer. The fat years, when they came, were obese. He has made and sold eleven pilot films, now sells shows on his name alone, without bothering to film a trial episode. His 1965 income for the first nine months...
...news that seems to have hit Co-Playwrights Howard DaSilva and Felix Leon with tardy impact. Inevitably, the odd interracial couple has a run-in with the local Nazi Afrikaner corps, blond and stolid beasts who are decently venal enough to be bought off. Dore Schary, the old Message Pilot of MGM, has directed The Zulu and the Zayda in a spirit of brotherhood that pretty effectively squelches any possible dramatic conflict...
After listing such names as "Air Force Diet," "Astronaut Diet," "Airlines Pilot Diet," "Grapefruit Diet," "Low Carbohydrate Diet" and "Drinking Man's Diet," Dr. Hoffman said: "I would like to take this opportunity to specifically disclaim any association with or responsibility by the Mayo Clinic for any of them." The best program for the person who is overweight, he added, is simply to eat less. "There is little if any evidence for the success of any method which does not restrict calorie intake to a level below body energy needs...
...Kansas City's National Catholic Reporter, owned and edited by laymen who take orders from no one (although they get moral and financial support from Missouri Bishop Charles Helmsing). "It is the freshest thing that has appeared in Catholic journalism," says Monsignor Francis J. Lally of the Boston Pilot...