Word: vanguards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next day the vanguard headed out to their new assignments. Fifty (including 21 young women) went directly to Ghana, to teach in secondary schools. The other 30 (all men) flew to Puerto Rico for 26 days of field training before proceeding to Tanganyika, where they will build roads for the next two years. Available soon to each corpsman is a special guidebook, "Working Effectively Overseas." Crammed with information on the problems and pitfalls-trivial as well as serious-of working in primitive countries, the booklet was drawn from the painful experience of other Americans in the field. Items...
Mozart: Concertos for Horn and Orchestra (Albert Linder, horn; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Hans Swarowsky; Vanguard). The four concertos Mozart wrote for horn are all beauties -full of pert, charming and sometimes humorous ideas put together with faultless style and taste. Danish Hornist Linder does them justice...
...many senses a Deep South city. It is not necessarily a placid place. Says a race-relations worker who has long traveled throughout the South: "Nashville can be the nastiest town I've ever seen." But Nashville (pop. 170,000) has unexpectedly taken its place in the vanguard of Southern integration...
...hole we are in." That hole, says Physicist Van Allen, "is a vast area of human ignorance, and the history of the world shows that attacking ignorance is fruitful." Ever since he was a shy student studying cosmic rays at Iowa Wesleyan, Van Allen has been in the vanguard of the attack. In his cluttered lab at the State University of Iowa, his carefully compiled experiments with rockets and satellites add up to an interplanetary detective story. Clue piled upon clue finally demonstrated the existence of the deadly Van Allen belts of radiation that girdle the earth, a hazard...
Songs and Fun with the Baby Sitters (Vanguard). This winning semipro quartet gives one the sensation of visiting with rather than listening to. Giving off an air of artless improvisation, they intertwine pretend games, traditional ballads and "activity songs." Low on actorish gloss, the Baby Sitters are as soft sell as a lullaby and just about perfect for the just-out-of-the-nursery...