Word: attracting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burned into military memories is the hasty dismantlement of the U.S. armed forces after World War II, when the nation returned to its traditional military stance: a small number of voluntary regulars, backed up by reserves and the National Guard. The Army managed to attract 300,000 volunteers, of whom West Point's Colonel Samuel H. Hays wrote: "In an infantry battalion during that period one might find only two or three high school graduates in nearly a thousand men. Technical proficiency was not at a high level; delinquency and court-martial rates were." Getting choosier, the Army raised...
...Pentagon's estimates of pay increases sufficient to attract a volunteer army ranged startlingly from $4 billion to $17 billion a year; Nixon says that he has found "authoritative studies" suggesting that a volunteer force could be set up for $5 billion to $7 billion extra. The Pentagon speculates that pensions for a volunteer army might be astronomical, but presumably they would at least partly and eventually replace the $6 billion a year (sixth largest single item in the federal budget) that the nation pays to ex-servicemen who feel that something is their due for having been drafted...
...flies to Japan from California, got new routes from Seattle and New York over the North Pole to Japan. Northwest Airlines, also a Pacific veteran, will get an additional route to Japan via Hawaii. Result: more competition between Pan Am and Northwest, but also more opportunity for each to attract traffic. Finally, the Flying Tiger Line landed an all-cargo route to Southeast Asia...
...really the endowment makes fee increases unnecessary, in fact fees could be permanently eliminated. The University of Pittsburgh, when it started receiving applications from valedictorians of little town high schools it had never heard from before (said Dean of Admission, Chase Peterson). A less expensive Harvard would also attract a more economcially diverse student body...
...Hampshire training camp, the Harvard ski team will sponsor a major racing competition on January 4 for the first time ever. To be known as the Harvard Challenge Cup, this two-run slalom at Loon Mt., N.H., will be the first major U.S. race of 1969 and should attract many of the country's best skiers...