Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRAIN. Excitement piles up, quite literally, in Director John Frankenheimer's World War II drama about a trainload of stolen French art, racing toward the German border with Hero Burt Lancaster hot on its wheels...
...much as he enjoyed them, these were distractions from his primary assignment: helping train South Vietnamese pilots. That job gives him a real sense of accomplishment. Says he: "Not since the days of Spaatz has anyone as low-ranking as a captain been able to play an important part in building a whole air force from the ground up. It's a great job, and I was lucky enough to draw it. When you consider that it was only a few years ago that the entire Vietnamese air force consisted of 20 ancient Bearcats and a couple...
...South Viet Nam: eager for battle, they are restricted to patrolling the Danang perimeter, and so far they have not been blooded. Last week, returning from an uneventful patrol, Necaise expressed his impatience. "Look at it this way," he said. "If you're in the engineers, you train to build roads and you get a chance to build roads. If you're in communications, you train to communicate and you get a chance to communicate. When you're a rifleman, you train to kill, but . . ." At that point he disgustedly waved a hand toward the quiet hills...
...Rudi and Margot kindle onstage also rage offstage are false. Margot is married to Dr. Roberto ("Tito") Arias, 46, former Panamanian Ambassador to Britain. Arias, who was shot by a political enemy in Panama last June, is paralyzed from the neck down, and Margot spends three hours on the train every day in order to visit him in the hospital in Buckingham shire, where he is being treated...
...Ultimate Solution. To reduce "structural" unemployment, the Government has mounted a two-pronged attack designed to train unskilled workers-especially Negroes and teen-agers -for more demanding jobs. More than 125,000 unemployed workers are being retrained, and 275,000 have qualified for federal training grants. Almost three-quarters of those who have completed their training have already been employed by private industry. These programs are, however, stopgap measures at best. The ultimate unemployment solution, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz believes, lies in education. "There is no place in the future society for the uneducated person," he says. "We could...