Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scurrilous & Silly." The point of the magazine's piece was that Michigan State, while running a big, U.S.-financed project to train Viet Nam's fledgling police forces from 1955 on, provided cover for five CIA agents. On that, everybody concurred-but on precious little besides. Among Ramparts' other natterings: the cloak-and-dagger men, though supposedly assigned to teach the police administration techniques, were actually under orders "to engage in counterespionage and counterintelligence"; M.S.U. raked in $25 million in seven years before Premier Ngo Dinh Diem canceled its contract; the university "actually supplied" the Vietnamese "with...
...born Pham Bong on Dec. 31, 1923, in Diem Dien, a village in central Viet Nam now under Hanoi's rule. One of three sons of a well-to-do farmer, he was sent at the age of 13 to the Bao Quoc pagoda in Hué to train for monkhood. Wild and fond of practical jokes at first, he was expelled, then given a second chance. He matured into a student with a photographic memory and a searching intellect. His teacher at Bao Quoc, Thich Tri Do, who now heads the tame Buddhist church of North Viet Nam, guided...
Porous Security. After escaping, Betancourt made his way by foot, train and car or truck to two towns outside Havana, seeking refuge at several farms. Some peasants took him in; others went to the police. After his brother Luis went into Havana to seek a hiding place for the escapee, a bone-weary Betancourt finally slipped back into the city and took refuge in the San Francisco church and convent. There two Franciscan friars agreed, the government charged later, "to hide him, in order later to take him clandestinely out of the country." But government snoopers had got word that...
...before they have spent hundreds of hours in a controlman), but whose interest is purely technical. Bob Kalayan '67, this year's head controlman, does nothing but technical work, and, he says, "the more complicated it is, the more fun." It takes only five or six hours to train a controlman to minimal standards, but beyond that, there is all kinds of scope for a good man. What a controlman really likes is "har"--short for harassment. The more shifts from one tape to another, or from tape to live broadcast; the more "splits"--when there is one thing...
...provided the playwright is skillful. Dennison isn't. Instead of treating the device seriously or comically--as in Batman when a BLAM sign is flashed--he tries to do both at once and winds up with something that is laughable. There is, for example, an actor who "portrays" a train and at least four times walks across the stage carrying a framework that is suggestive of a train. Not to subtle...