Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time regain the villagers' confidence by demonstrating "the presence, power and benevolence of France." The benevolence is the job of some 260 specially trained French officers, sent out with a corporals' guard to the disaffected areas with orders to start public works and public-health programs, recruit a local militia. "Eighty percent of the natives just want to be protected from trouble," said one young district officer in the Aures Mountains. "So long as they believe that we're here to stay in strength, they will not support the fellagha...
...Wickizer of Indianapolis predicted that if the ratio of church membership to population in the U.S. remains constant until 1975, Protestants will have to lay out some $8 billion for the construction of 105,000 new church buildings. This will mean, said Dr. Wickizer, that for every new recruit to the ministry today there will have to be four in the near future. U.S. Protestants will also have to develop a new kind of pastor, geared to a greater proportion of older citizens and working wives. But this should not mean a tamer type of preaching, he warned: "It worries...
...with trying to please or appease Egypt, decided that proven friends are best, and made a big fuss over its new Baghdad pact (METO) partners, particularly its old partner-in-oil Iraq. By proving that it pays, militarily and economically, to be friends, the British hope to recruit as another METO prospect, Jordan, whose national budget and Arab Legion they underwrite at the rate of $24 million a year. The British are determined to show Egypt's Nasser that flirting with Communists is not the way to get arms or anything else from the West. The British have another reason...
...order to recruit more talent for this and other campaigns, the CRIMSON will open its second competition of the year next Tuesday...
...turn have necessitated larger scholarship funds. Every phase of a college's operation demands more money. Faculty members, meanwhile, have seen the real value of their salaries decrease steadily while income in other professions has soared upward, so that good college teachers are becoming harder and harder to recruit. Thus, the nation's colleges and universities are already up to their neck in financial troubles; at this point the approaching wave of war babies, forcing lowered standards of teaching and facilities, could easily drown American education in a flood of mediocrity...