Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diego's officials are struggling to lure new employment sources to the city. Says State Labor Analyst Arthur McCarty: "We have all the facilities, all of the personnel and all of the money needed to retrain these workers. There is only one real problem: What do we train them...
...Training Program. But the Viet Cong overplayed their hand. They took rice and livestock from the montagnards in order to feed their guerrillas, used terror tactics against the more recalcitrant mountain villages. Tens of thousands of montagnards fled to government-held territory. Prodded by the U.S., President Ngo Dinh Diem's government has begun an attempt to win the montagnards over with a resettlement program. Even more important, U.S. military advisers have started a program to arm and train montagnards, who then are sent back into the hills to defend their villages and to keep the surrounding territory...
...demanded a weapon-by-weapon accounting for the $1,100,000 worth shipped in since 1960 to equip Haiti's regular army, air force and coast guard. Now, Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr., chief of the 50-man U.S. Marine mission sent down to train Haiti's soldiers, has indicated still more U.S. displeasure. In a note, approved by the highest levels of both the Pentagon and the State Department, he coldly suggested that Duvalier abolish the brutal 8,000-man militia that operates as the dictator's irregular private army, terrorizing the French-speaking Negro republic...
...sliding lithely about the ring, huge fists darting out at imaginary opponents. "Time!" calls a handler, and Liston begins to whale away in earnest at his sparring partners. "Time!" again, and Liston switches his attack to the heavy punching bag. Then he skips rope (to the tune of Night Train), winds up his workout with a dramatic, neck-wrenching headstand on a rubbing table...
...passengers have complaints about railroads, and few have the opportunity to do anything about it. One passenger who is an avid railroad enthusiast recently traveled from Chicago to Washington on the B. & O.'s crack Capitol Limited. "The train traveled so fast through the Alleghenies that I found it difficult to sleep or shave, much less keep my coffee in its cup," complained Jervis Langdon Jr. Since he happens to be president of the B. & O., he forthwith ordered engineers to slow down. Trains, he argued, should go back to the old values of comfort and contemplation that they...