Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report cited several advantages of working through universities, including the school's ability to recruit "on the spot." And, it said, "the Peace Corps can help the universities by giving new purpose to the student during his years of study...
...unprecedented increase in the er of nominees," Sir Hugh Taylor, dent of the Foundation said, "has ed us, after the keenest of competi- to recruit young people who possess , who might never have thought of sional careers...
...Shriver's report runs a constant and generous theme: that the program is a service to nations undergoing impossibly difficult birth pains. He provides for adapting the Corps to U.S. aid and technical assistance programs. If a host nation suggests particular U.S. assistance projects, for example, the Corps could recruit, train, and administrate personnel for everything from large-scale teaching programs to construction works requiring skilled labor...
With help from British churchmen and the government, Dickson set up a middleman agency to recruit youths aged 18 to 24 for one year's service in underdeveloped countries, and he has been astonishingly successful. Though they get only subsistence pay and hard living, they stick: only two volunteers out of 165 have quit so far. In 25 countries, VSO currently has 87 public-school boys, factory apprentices, girls and university men-all working at everything from repairing bicycles in Kenya to aiding sick Eskimos in Labrador. Wrote one Southeast Asian official: "Send us the best you have...
...Caltech, Geneticist Beadle has stuck close to his research as head of the school's famous biology division since 1946. But he has shown a sixth-sense ability to spot, recruit and excite able researchers, and has developed unexpected talents in fund raising and speechmaking. Beadle is even that rare scientist who takes an interest in money matters; he avidly reads the Wall Street Journal, and took delight in driving a $250 model A Ford for 22 years, then selling...