Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly thirty groups sent representatives to Putney. Students from Minnesota's SPAN (Student Project for Amity among Nations) told of studying a special problem, like the refugee situation, in either India or Turkey, and then returning to their university to write a thesis and receive credit. A young farmer from Ohio described living with an Indian farm family for two months under the International Farm Youth Exchange. A Stanford student explained a program of "reverse exchange" by which foreign students take up undergraduate programs here and live in college derms...
Aside from these programs of individual exchanges, there were many travel groups. UCLA's "Project India" for three summers has sent goodwill missions to Indian universities, and California at Berkeley followed with a more hurried trip to Pakistan, India, and Ceylon. The American Friends Service Committee has also sponsored travel, although most of the attendance at its work camps and seminars in Asia was composed of Asians from nearby countries...
...fill these needs that most groups ran into trouble. For America's sterco-typical desire to "do good" is often suspect, especially in former colonial territories. It was not surprising that Americans in Calcutta found it difficult to induce Indian students to join them in a village work project--no matter how much the students needed the work and the village needed the project...
...busy worrying about his errant showtime son, Donald. O'Connor hoofs and melodizes in his usual manner, but looks like the Soap-Box Derby Winner with a Cadillac when he romances with a healthier and heftier Marilyn. For all her eye and hip rolling, Monroe is unable to project effectively as she did in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She mouthes through several enticers, including "Heat Wave" and "After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want it Anymore...
...week's end, SEC recessed the hearings until Jan. 19. If SEC approves the financing of the project, opponents may go to court to try to block it. Thus, even without any action by the hostile incoming Congress, a decision on Dixon-Yates may well drag on past Feb. 15, the deadline set by AEC for final approval. If Dixon-Yates does not have a final okay by then, both sides will have to decide whether to extend the deadline or cancel the contract...