Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard planners felt only one non-undergraduate need was urgent enough to include in the campaign--$20 million for four graduate schools' programs to train public officials...
They don't have the same responsibilities. We're expected to learn our lines, get the reporters steadied down, train the campaign managers and press secretaries, put up with the fellow who shows up with the sandwich sign and the Uncle Sam suit, remember which one is Evans and which one is Novak, explain why we tolerate William Loeb's tarnal foolishness in the Manchester Union Leader, and then put on DeKalb Seed Corn caps and decide which of a dozen self-swollen hot-air balloons is least likely to lead the nation to shame and ruin...
...Jarvis, 75, now a senior vice president with Shearson Hay den Stone, remembers Black Tuesday as "a bloodbath. It was horrible." In the days after the crash, he says, several of his friends committed suicide, one by jumping off the Daily News Building, another by leaping from his commuter train. One man asked a friend of Jarvis how someone could kill himself without pain; a drug was mentioned and the next morning the questioner was dead. Two weeks later the man who advised him shot himself. "They went one after another," says Jarvis. "They couldn't stand...
Until 1946 she was a Roman Catholic teaching nun in India, devout, dynamic, but apparently otherwise unexceptional. Then, on a train ride to Darjeeling, she felt the touch of a divine command. Its message: she must quit her cloistered existence and plunge into Calcutta's clamorous slums to care for "the poorest of the poor...
...other business, the assembly will solicit reservations from Tuesday to Thursday for a train it is running to New Haven, Conn., for The Game November 17. Round-trip cost to students is $23.75. The assembly needs at least 500 students to pay before it can rent the Amtrak train...