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extracted text: ty two nations and territories received I.L.O. aid under the technical assistance program me (in the form of vocation al training, rehabilitation of persons disabled through la bour accidents, rational em ployment of manpower). On a regional scale, aid has been coordinated with special agencies in Bangalore (India) for Asia, at Istambul for the Middle and Near East, at Li ma for South America, Me xico City for Mexico, the An tilles and Central America and at Lagos for Africa. Generally speaking, the real value of such programmes lies in their appeal to any coun try desiring to make use of the experience and know ledge of nations with differ ent economic and social de velopment stages .arid of the assistance of civil and cultu ral associations. The I.L.O. has recently un dertaken an educational prog ramme for workers (courses, conferences, furnishing of au diovisual apparatus) and vo cational training schemes (training of technical person nel, management, etc.), prin cipally addressed to those countries .that are now un dergoing strong economic and industrial expansion and, in 1960, decided upon the foun dation of an «International Institute of Social Studies * in Geneva, for the purpose of furthering a better understan ding of labour problems in all nations and finding the most suitable solutions. ♦ * AN AMPHIBIAN CAR FOR EVERYBODY The Industriewerke Company of Karlsruhe is just starting an assembly line for an amphibian car in its Lubeck factory. This amphibian automo bile for civilian, private use will be known as the amphicar. The first 25,000 amphicars are bound for the American market. The amphicar looks like an ordinary car with four wheels and four seats. It is powered by a 1200 ccm four-stroke en gine with four cylinders. On the road it does 75 miles per hour. You can drive it straight into any river or lake, switching the engine over to a cou ple of plastic propellers in the rear. This converts the car into a boat, though in water it does only six to seven miles per hour. Still, here is a car which can be used as a motor-boat, and no longer depends on bridges. October 1961 91
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