BLIND NARBERTH YOUTH PICKED FOR CIA TRANSLATOR COURSE
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Blind Narberth Youth Picked ?
For CIA Translator Course
ay HENRY Ii. DARLING
0 The Bulletin Staff
Thnothy .John ? Pinata, lees
about *ix per cent 'of ,the world
?
through one eye and a contact
4.1ens.
But, If the ban bounces the
way he wants It to, he's going tO
put that six percent '.to better
Ilse than most of us with 20-20
Tim 11 00 his way to being an
friterpeeter. for the U. S.' Gov-
-ertunent.
. He hope..t someday, to be one of
thoie fast7thiniting,..quicktant-
ing interpreters for the United
Natiens--the language wizards
who can translate Russian into
. English as rapidly as the ver-
bose Mr. IChrushcbev can shout
It out.-
CIA Crash Course
He was selected' recently by
' the Central intelligence Agencsf
to take a crash course in P.0-
Sian to prepare him for Otis
work.
A talk broad-shoulderi,j,
year-old youth, Tim puti it this
Way: ?
Johis Pilean
tie PIIIW-that-iiialln. A fee, ?
'bath, fite bent hie own hi-
CPYRGHT ?
. "Somebody down in ?ne l was.at Orebro* he
ton realized that we (NIA'tbat a blind German
? *otos can do interoretialWkboy IAA pled speak nb bgUsh
just as well as a sighted PE, evieVectiring tta the sdhool,?
"I don't know who he Iva/ Alt
. I'm gratauLto Min."
Comprehensive Test
Heti* d Getman Iloy'
.14 'bought .a German tram
anteir.4 studied it in his ofi,
Actually. the CIA iel very'-
' Gerit and became his closest
t - ?
v.. e. -ertevileg,he took his friend to
,titer Nam1.
careful selective joh.''S'he ,took Tin teete0 him in secentiess
applications frotr ereA
country. nal rowed the A
and gave them a cotr.r://tb.
seven-hour test.
'Part of It war`
mea.sure our
new language."
'They v. mill
ItnettriingifS6 WOI4
k e- ell , the-.
words, I remelt,'
Acenakum, one'
four,,
"Then tb.r
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di It4
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' to Irate a.
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and numbt
are the act
them-1
Ai 01
not tt.. "IP
rth
probably toat 'it
into
imp .ef,,re .p Tim. and 1.
of hers frorri Tning
like this: ? ,
wtio 's ? .0 11- Na
?rth ay, N.A11./.' ? Ly4(4404,
f , vo r
of us could see, of
," said Thu. "Mae waitta
boy seated in trent of ri;.e
3,14 Could, but no couldn't eoeek
I iErgi,sh very well. ?
*111e Polish boy told me what
. ?
,.tveuiatteing ma out an the field.
figura& out What he' meant in
English. Then I translated it into
German for my friend.
Aids Understanding ? -
Tim .believes there is more to
it language than just Jimmies
the words and grammar...
you have to be able to talk
?
with people in their native ton-
to realbruKierstand them,"
rit 0444
"TiAt's why we'd all be better
off /f sea 'of' )earned to apeak
Russian. -1;Ito we',1 ,know more
the
at
-- ?
to \tilt s tir,hout how they think."
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