Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shiny Rails. Recently Kasler was roving over North Viet Nam's southern panhandle, where intelligence said no trains had operated for months. "I noticed the tracks were shiny," he recalls. "So I followed them and suddenly I saw a train. Since then, we have destroyed several trains there and put the line out of commission." Last week, busy as ever, Kasler picked out some suspicious tracks leading into an out-of-the-way forested area near North Viet Nam's Mu Gia Pass. "I dropped down to 500 ft., and sure enough, there was a truck. My first...
...less dramatic chores of the empire. It set up the famed London School of Tropical Medicine, waged successful wars against malaria and the tsetse fly. Under its direction, Britain became the first modern nation to extend developmental aid to backward areas of the world, and its officers helped train a substantial segment of the world in methods of administering government and running essential health, educational and financial services...
...Siegfried Engelmann, a research associate at the University of Illinois' Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, and his wife Therese, a psychologist. They argue unconvincingly that such intellectual giants as Goethe, Leibnitz, Mill and Macaulay benefited less from genes than from early teaching, conclude that parents can train their children to become gifted...
ARFEP, an undergraduate organization sponsoring discussion of U.S.-China relations, currently has 60 operating chapters around the country. "The East and West coasts are pretty well established," said Lewis Crampton, graduate student in East Asian studies, and co-chairman of the Harvard chapter of ARFEP. "We want to train our sights now on the cam- puses of the South and Mid-West, particularly the state universities...
...Center has already done preliminary work in streamlining the administrations of Central American universities, where poor libraries and laboratories make it impossible to attract a single scientist with a doctorate. One way of up-grading the faculty, Davis suggested, is to bring visiting professors to train the local teachers. Such methods might also be used on the secondary school level, another researcher suggested...