Word: 2nd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tomorrow at 10 a.m. on the gridiron behind Yale Stadium, Harvard's political scientists will abandon their arm chairs and literary disputes to do battle with their Yale counterparts in their 2nd annual touch football game...
...LAUGHING MATTER: RATIONALE OF THE DIRTY JOKE, 2ND SERIES by G. LEGMAN 992 pages. Breaking Point...
...statue will be displayed in Israel's capital. "There was no way that statue wasn't going to Jerusalem," said Leventhal. In the 2nd century, the Jews who lived there "would have given anything to get their hands on Hadrian," who crushed the revolt led by Patriot Bar Kokhba and savagely persecuted the Jews. Now that contemporary Israelis have him, they are not about to let Hadrian go. As consolation for not letting Leventhal keep his find, Israeli archaeologists have promised him some ancient Jewish coins for his collection...
...G.l.s must also devote at least 18 hours of duty time each month to some kind of formal education. Observes Sergeant Dale McLaughlin at Camp Casey, headquarters of the 2nd Division: "A man here is almost forced to get educated. You're hounded until you take something." Courses include high school subjects leading to a diploma and college-level studies...
...time-killing formula of training, education and recreation seems to have significantly reduced the racial tensions and drug problems that plagued U.S. forces in Korea and elsewhere in the 1960s and early 1970s. (Nearly half the 2nd Division's G.l.s are black and other minorities.) Morale also seems high in most places. A young lieutenant compared his life at Camp Casey with that at a "jock college." Closer to the DMZ, soldiers suffer from isolation, primitive facilities (hot baths once a week) and sheer boredom. It is at these bleak forward outposts that the U.S. would suffer its first...