Word: trained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...planned the Peace Corps admit that they had very little idea what the volunteer's life overseas would be like, and even less about how to train him for it. But they expectd that there would be many men in the universities who knew enough about particular countries and problems of development to design and direct effective training programs...
Peace Corps Director of Selection Al Carp, in Cambridge Thursday to brief the recruiters, said that over 90 per cent of the Harvard and Radcliffe students who apply and who are medically qualified will be invited to training. Of those about 85 per cent will be asked to train for the country or region that they request. That Peace Corps invitation, Carp said, is not a guarantee that a student will be sent overseas; he noted that one in six trainees fail the training program...
...addition, there will be a special meeting for juniors on Thursday to discuss the Advanced Training Program. The Corps hopes to have a nationwide total of 1000 juniors training for eight to ten weeks this summer. They will continue working on their own next year, then train several more weeks after graduation before going abroad...
...rail freight, container shipping involves packing cargo into steel, aluminum or wood containers of more or less standard size (8 ft. high, 8 ft. wide and 10, 20, 30 or 40 ft. long) at the factory, no matter how far inland. The containers are then moved by truck or train to a port city and loaded aboard a ship built especially to accommodate them or so adapted. Upon arrival at a foreign port, the containers, still unopened, may be unloaded and freighted inland to their ultimate destination...
Last week O'Brien journeyed to Cambridge to exercise all three of these options. He arrived by train and was rushed off to a Faculty Club luncheon, thence to a taped interview for WHRB, and finally to Kirkland House where he spoke on "The United States and Africa...