Word: vaughns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...geologists attending the International Geological Congress. The Russian delegates were so embarrassed by the invasion that they removed their name tags. The U.S. embassy hired 20 buses to help transport some 1,500 stranded Americans, including onetime Film Star Shirley Temple Black and TV Actor Robert (U.N.C.L.E.) Vaughn, to West Germany and Austria. Tourists streamed out of the country in their cars, often driving past menacing Soviet tanks parked at lonely countryside junctions with their guns pointed at the road. The Czechoslovaks at first begged the tourists to stay and aid them in their struggle, then put them to work...
Commencement speakers generally applauded today's activist students for their idealism and courage. "You have reminded us that our powerful nation runs the risk of becoming a callous and self-righteous, indeed, a bullying nation," declared Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn in an address at Fresno State. "You have warned us that our social and political institutions show signs of congealing into unresponsive and bureaucratic establishments-you have caught our affluent society in the act of becoming a smug society." Speaking at Connecticut's Fairfield University, Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams paid students a high compliment. "Through the scientific...
Dividing Equity. Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy have, in fact, just about divided Actors' Equity between them (see box). There have been some notable crossovers. Gene has lured Rob ert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) from touch-football games at Hickory Hill, while Bobby has corralled Carol Channing, who warbled her way into the White House with Hello, Lyndon! in 1964. Artists, writers and other intellectuals are also pretty evenly divided between the two. Bobby has a corner on famed athletes. With just the names he has now, he would probably sweep both the World Series and the football...
...Vaughn stressed the flexibility of the Peace Corps administration, pointing out that Peace Corps training "no longer has the boot camp aspect...
...training reform he mentioned is the "LST" program, Language Submersion Training, which demands ten hours a day, six days a week of language practice for a month. It works better than the former less intensive method--and any thing that works is okay with the corps administration, said Vaughn...