Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contend with. While a lot of Republicans out in the country have been backing Johnson's fighting stance in Viet Nam, some G.O.P. Congressmen have felt that it is time to debate the subject. This is pretty hard to do without sounding like a speaker at a college teach-in. But the G.O.P.sters thought they detected a mild rift between Johnson and Eisenhower in their respective positions on Viet Nam and decided to move into the breach. Naturally, they drafted a "white paper...
Accent on Youth. Under a ten-point program to be implemented by federal agencies, Clark's team will see that Watts gets: 1) make-work projects to reduce unemployment; 2) stepped-up youth training programs; 3) centers to care for dependent children and to teach skills to needy mothers; 4) a small business development center; 5) increased health services, with emphasis on youth; 6) a back-to-school campaign; 7) more surplus foods; 8) surplus Government property, such as clothing; 9) more neighborhood facilities, such as playgrounds; 10) faster construction of low-income housing...
...announced draft of students and professors into the Vietnamese army for officer training. The roar came from Hué, where the draft order would have reduced the local university's faculty to four professors. Meeting in a series of open "seminars," a sort of Asiatic teach-in, 500 draft eligibles issued a fiery manifesto accusing Ky of attempting to "lead the society into a state of confusion and darkness," demanded the overthrow of the government, free elections and, for good measure, "social revolution...
...Britain as a translator. In 1942, accompanying Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski to Latin America in search of a home for 4,000 people displaced by the war, he was "stunned at the generosity of the Mexican people in receiving the refugees," and after the war returned to Mexico to teach. In 1946 he became a Mexican citizen...
...Russian Jewish immigrants (original name: Gayetzsky), he left school at 15 to tour with Jack Teagarden's band, got as far as St. Louis before the truant officers caught up with him. It was wartime, and musicians were scarce, so Teagarden agreed to become his legal guardian and "teach me all my lessons." After the band broke up a year later, Getz went on to play with Stan Kenton, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Woody Herman's famed "Four Brothers" sax section...