Word: train
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...MONKEES (Colgem). A monkee is a species of trained beatle, of which four have been assembled for a zany new TV series. Their first album begins with their television theme song: "We're the young generation, and we've got sumpin' to say." Actually, they don't say so much (This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day, Buy Me a Dog) but they do have some engagingly catchy songs, notably Lust Train to Clarksville...
...needed," says Dr Joseph B. Boatman, chief of physiology and biophysics at Battelle Memorial Institute, "is better communication. The physician must learn to ask the right questions of the right people. Medical research must bring together many skills and many backgrounds. What we lack is a school to train medical research clinicians. The whole purpose of medical schools is to train physicians to treat patients and there is no room to train researchers. Medical school should stop making research a secondary interest...
Honolulu in 1931, a train of events that was to lead to murder and the crass mishandling of justice. As a crime story, the Massie case had everything; it was one of those lurid combinations of violence and unreason that not only command horrified attention at the time they happen but make for compelling reading when reconstructed later. Peter Van Slingerland, a freelance journalist, retells the case with the crisp assurance of a good crime reporter. He claims to have done even more-more than the authorities were able to do at the time. He identifies the man who killed...
...force. Officials of the new mayor-council government privately assured prominent Negroes that the force would be integrated. But it seemed that Negroes just couldn't pass the stiff civil service exam administered by the county Personnel Board. Encouraged by city officials, Negro businessmen organized schools to train Negroes to take the test, while the city diligently quaried officials in some 89 other Southern towns to see how they had made out with Negro cops, and even paid $10,000 for an independent study of the personnel exam to see if it was rigged against Negroes (the report said...
...Earl W. Lawson, O.I.C. program administrator, said that his organization was powerful and popular because "we train people within the poverty belt." What is important, he continued, "is visibility and not theory." Some people say that it does not matter who directs an organization, Lawson said, but this "is idealistic and not realistic." It is important for the Roxbury constituents to be able to see that their organization is run by Negroes, and that any whites who are working in the office are "in our hands...