Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Japan's new Overseas Youth Volunteers are Asia's first Peace Corpsmen, and though they so far number fewer than 100, they represent another indicator of Sato's outward thrust. Stationed from Southeast Asia to East Africa, they are skilled in auto repair and agriculture, nursing and nutrition, use their spare time to teach such Japanese native skills as origami and karate. Despite their Asian eyes and skin color, the Japanese Peace Corpsmen find it as challenging to relate to underdeveloped Asia as do their round-eyed American counterparts. For all their own appetite for sashimi...
...Johnson that his programs had sown confusion in their states by gorging them with cash and concepts that they were simply not prepared to handle. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has urged the 90th Congress to conduct a "top-to-bottom" re-evaluation of Great Society programs to repair "rough edges, overextensions, overlaps, and perhaps even significant gaps." Congress seems more than willing to oblige...
...neckties ("the flashiest ever"), a dress that spells out words, and even one that is wired to play music. There is always the chance, of course, that one of her hyperdelic transsensory minis might break down. No problem. Says Diana: "Please just take it to the nearest radio-TV repair shop...
...major stumbling block to an early start, the architect said, was the inability of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority to vacate the site for the Library--the M.B.T.A.'s 12 acre Bennett St. repair yards...
...pilots, the missions were as routine as any ever are in the face of North Viet Nam's formidable air-defense system. The targets: the Yen Vien railroad center northeast of the capital, and Van Dien, a major vehicle-repair depot known in Pentagon parlance as the "secondhand-car lot," with a capacity of some 500 trucks. Both had been hit for the first time on Dec. 2; and both were worth a second try, particularly Yen Vien, the country's largest rail choke point, handling one-third of the nation's military traffic...