Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUTCHMAN. Another shocking play effectively turned into a film-this time LeRoi Jones's one-act polemic on race hate. Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr. enact a brief, brutal encounter on a subway train that builds danger with the insistence of steel wheels screeching around a curve...
...President deferred the most sensitive decision to next year-how the corporation should be financed to protect it from political pressures. Also in the education field, Johnson called for a fourfold increase in the Teacher Corps (to 5,500 volunteers) by mid-1968 and expansion of programs to train new teachers and administrators, combat adult illiteracy and eliminate school segregation. Total cost of his education proposals: $11 billion...
First, the tracks would be covered by a continuous concrete vault that would muffle train noise. Atop the vault would run a traffic-free pedestrian mall dotted with shops, restaurants, theaters and schools and connected to new mixed-income housing on either side. Since the new Harlem apartment buildings would be bigger than the tenements they replace, the planners hope to encourage racial integration. Moreover, because the project would be built in stages, people living in the path of construction could immediately move into adjacent completed portions, thus minimizing urban renewal's thorniest political and human problem-relocation...
...readers to debonair Gewinner Pearce, a homosexual Superman. Of the remaining four stories, the best is Man Bring This Up Road, a chilling confrontation between a hickory-hard, female old moneybags and an aging, importunate beach boy-which provided the theme for Williams' 1963 flop play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore...
While considering this organizational change, EFA has also been negotiating with Peace Corps officials to administer an experimental Peace Corps officials to administer an experimental Peace Corps training program. No final agreement has yet been made, but the major point of the program -- if adopted -- would be to train prospective volunteers from Harvard and Radcliffe in the countries where they would eventually work. At present, Peace Corps volunteers are trained in this country...