Word: tools
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After a year at Dartmouth and an engineering degree from M.I.T. ('36), Bunkie went to work for a Detroit machine shop. He reached Pontiac in 1939 as a menial "tool chaser." Then, for a decade, he tried out anything that might broaden his experience from defense-plant inspector to car-assembly superintendent...
They maintain that the draft finds its most effective use in community organizing. "It can be used as a tool to reach those people who hear about the war only by reading their newspapers," says Vernon Grizzard, who organizes against the draft in Cambridge...
...dispute over the most effective use of the draft as an organizing tool is nationwide. In Boston, the broader approach is embodied in the Boston Draft Resistance Group (BDRG). The Resistance wants persons to dissociate themselves from the Selective Service; BDRG just wants them to avoid...
...Peace Corps a tool of foreign policy? Not the foreign policy of this country but the domestic policy of 57 nations. Do we speak the official line? Says Dean Rusk, "The Peace Corps cannot be used as an instrument of foreign policy, for to do so would be to destroy its contribution to our foreign policy...
...work on a dam on the Euphrates that will supply electricity to much of Syria, and are prospecting for oil in Egypt. In all, Soviet teams are engaged in 100 or so major projects, including the construction of a steel plant in Algeria, a railroad in Iraq, a machine-tool plant in Iran, and a fish-meal factory in Yemen. Russian culture follows the Red flag. In Alexandria, young girls are quitting belly-dance classes and attending the recently opened Russian ballet school instead. Soviet folk-dance groups and circus troupes tour the major Arab cities. Russian films play...