Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coward" won seven medals in Vietnam, and, more importantly, survived. O'Brien trudged through swamps, and watched friends and enemies die, witnessed war crimes and simple insults to humanity. His college dialogues on the war were left far behind. " ...No one in Alpha Company knows or cares about the cause or purpose of their war," he wrote. "It is about 'dinks and slopes' and the idea is simply to kill them or avoid them." O'Brien did more avoiding than killing, eventually wangled a job in the rear, and endured Vietnam...
...following juniors have been elected to the Alpha Chapter Phi Beta Kappa. Those elected are: Hillel M. Bennett of Lowell House and Swampscott; Robert J. Doris of Winthrop House and Woonsocket, R.I.; Michael A. Fifer of Lowell House and Elmhurst, N.Y.; Elliot F. Gerson of Quincy House and Storrs, Conn.; Frederick O. Holley of South House and La Jolla, Calif.; David L. Johnson of Adams House and Indianapolis,; Herman B. Leonard of Currier House and New York City; Joseph F. Nagy of Claverly Hall and Arlington; Eliot W. Nelson of Dunster House and Berkeley, Calif.; Edward M. Stolper of Winthrop...
...last of the departing G.I.s went, like tens of thousands of their predecessors, through Tan Son Nhut's Camp Alpha. The camp has a capacity of 1,800, but in the last days there seemed to be about four times that many soldiers. Bags and bodies were everywhere. Recent arrivals stripped to their skivvies and sat in the sun. There were plenty of diversions: a swimming pool, a movie and an Alpha Club that featured the Dreamers' show band. But most G.I.s just waited, playing chess or pool or saying one final goodbye to girl friends...
Civilians. The exit at Camp Alpha is marked with a sign that says, "Through these gates pass the world's best soldiers." Outside, crowded brown Army buses took the G.I.s on a four-minute ride to the waiting planes. One of these buses passed a disorganized column of 17-year-old Vietnamese recruits, marching from boredom to exhaustion. "You're on your own now, fellas!" one soldier yelled...
Nevertheless, biofeedback is a real phenomenon. So is "visceral learning," a process of becoming aware of and controlling such usually unconscious and involuntary physiological processes as heartbeat, blood pressure, temperature and intestinal contractions. As with alpha waves, the teaching process consists of asking a subject to try to produce a particular bodily effect, then signaling him whenever he manages...