Word: summer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After spending a student summer in Nyasaland in 1962, Kroeker wrote Prime Minister Hastings Banda to offer his services to the government-run radio station. When Banda accepted, Kroeker headed back with his hi-fi set, a homemade motor bike and 200 lbs. of spare radio parts. Three years ago, with $32,000 in locally raised capital, he founded the Nzeru Radio...
...research and treatment this summer, Muller hopes to "probe the various elements within the treatment itself." He will be working with 60 subjects frightened of public speaking. "Such phobias," he says, "can seriously hinder people in their careers...
...Harvard project this summer aims at curing fears of public speaking...
...treatment is being offered by John Muller, Teaching Fellow in Social Relations, in order to gather information for his doctoral dissertation. Associate professor Bruce Baker and David Cohen, Teaching Fellow in Social Relations, started researching the treatment last summer. At that time, they treated 28 people for acrophobia (fear of heights) and reported that 60 to 70 per cent of them were much improved...
Muller especially wants to get more student subjects for his studies this summer. "The kind of problems a student has in speaking in public are different from the problems an adult has in a working situation." he says, and points out that many students are hampered in their choice of courses and careers by this problem...