Word: unite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy and the public. For the past year and a half the public had heard of the spectacular feats of the Army & Navy's G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach). It was relatively simple. The only equipment needed in the plane was an ordinary two-way radio. A radar unit on the field picked up the plane, radioed the pilot what course to fly at what speed, when to lose altitude and how much. Experienced crews brought the plane smack down the middle of the runway again & again in zero-zero conditions. Neither service considered it experimental. The Army has recorded...
...pretty, 19-year-old Nancy Wills of Bristol, Pa., this sort of routine has become almost second nature. So it has to the eleven other U.S. girls of the Friends Service Unit at Cuautla, Mexico. The unit is one of two such Quaker-run projects in Mexico; the other, for boys, is at Yautepec. At its annual meeting in Philadelphia last week, the American Friends Service Committee, in response to invitations from local Mexican officials, approved plans to carry on its practice of augmenting year-round units with at least five summer groups...
...Payoff. The twelve girls of the Cuautla Service Unit sign up for six to eight months, pay $35 a month for their board. They live in an unused patio of a public school under the easygoing supervision of the project's Quaker directors, Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Binford. Each morning, after a 20-minute period of Quakerly meditation, the group separates for its various duties - helping the Mexican nurses at the clinic, accompanying them on their rounds, supervising playground activities in the school...
Under the new plan, according to Stanley Lofchie '47, of the unit's Student Affairs Committee, students will register the titles of books they wish to sell with the AVC. Then those in search of particular volumes may learn where they can be purchased and get in touch with the owners. AVC, Lofchie emphasized, will not handle the books themselves but will only bring together the buyers and sellers...
After next month's elections, the 12 men chosen will take over the class functions. Class Day activities, the election of Class officers, and the selection of the staff of the Album will come under the aegis of the unit...