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...those of us who are not gentlemen, the paradox of football delights and intrigues. Albert Camus played goal. Sir Frederick Ayer, the philosopher, is a fan, and there is a sense in which soccer is a fair subject for a logical positivist. It is, after all, a precise and yet various system of semeiotics...
...military equipment came from the 187th Infantry Brigade of the 94th Army Reserve Command, at Fort Devens in Ayer...
...member of the Yale inner circle." On the contrary, he is a heavy-shouldered, 6-ft. 4-in. black from Trinidad with a towering Afro hairdo and a penchant for blue jeans. He is also an avowed Marxist. Nonetheless, as a pupil of Oxford's distinguished logician AJ. Ayer, he so impressed the Yale philosophy department that he was hired in 1968 to teach courses on revolution and black liberation. And when Yale confronted the threat of a May Day riot two years ago, he worked diligently to help keep the peace...
Most of the nation has tired of flogging the question of long hair, but not the U.S. Army. In the face of ever-dwindling numbers of volunteers, the Department of the Army asked the N.W. Ayer & Sons advertising agency to launch a recruiting campaign. One theme: WE CARE MORE ABOUT HOW YOU THINK THAN HOW YOU CUT YOUR HAIR...
...credible indication that the Army was changing and placing emphasis on more important aspects of service. It was not anticipated that the change in haircut policy would become an issue in some units and between various groups within the Army." What is more, although the youth pictured in the Ayer ad looks well trimmed by contemporary standards, the circular emphasizes that he "does not repeat does not illustrate a soldier meeting the standards set by AR 600-20." The offending ad will soon be dropped "because of the possible misinterpretation that the Army is more permissive-which...