Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the U.S. worries about finding jobs for its unemployed (see above), West German industrialists send agents roaming the world to recruit workers. Last week, in one of their longest reaches yet, the Germans signed up 700 Japanese to work in the coal mines of the Ruhr...
...million to purchase nonnuclear matériel from howitzers to helicopters. He said he had instructed Defense Secretary McNamara to set up a program that would enable ten reserve divisions to go into combat within eight weeks of the outbreak of war. Another $60 million was requested to recruit 14,000 new marines, increasing the strength of the corps...
...from French right-wing activists, and cafe sitters all but flinched in anticipation of the explosion of a plastic bomb. As the Algerian F.L.N. delegation moved into the luxurious tile-roofed villa belonging to the Sheik of Qatar, nervous Swiss soldiers crouched low behind sandbagged defense posts. One panicky recruit fired a burst over the 'head of a photographer who was aiming his camera...
Many men with natural distinction of mind-Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Whittaker Chambers and Gustav Regler -have tried to read the Marxist riddle. By what stages does the self-sacrificing zeal of the idealist recruit to Communism become converted into the coldly inhuman amorality of the full-fledged apparatus man in the party's higher echelons? What turns the Utopian dream of universal brotherhood into the nightmare reality of the police state...
...Peace Corps "boot camp" in Puerto Rico supervised by an athletic director, of all people, is nothing short of ludicrous. Nor is the imposing list of athletic skills listed on the Peace Corps application blank. If the purpose of the Puerto Rico camp is merely to acquaint the recruit with the sights, sounds, and smells of a tropical climate, why not begin the process of acclimation in the country to which he is assigned? The expense incurred by shipping back those individuals who cannot adjust to the physical environment cannot possibly equal that of operating a permanent camp in Puerto...