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With the German economy still surging, officers and men feel underpaid. A full colonel earns about as much as a ski instructor; a master sergeant's pay about equals that of a cab driver. Moreover, a uniform provides no compensating psychic income to its wearer today. Determined not to repeat the mistakes of previous regimes that allowed the German army to become a state within the state, Bonn may have downgraded the postwar armed forces too far-the defense share of the federal budget has dropped from 28% in 1965 to 22.6% this year. Few soldiers wear their uniforms...
February 21: Panicked by news that the Civil Aeronautics Board might cancel the half-fare program for students, some 1100 Harvard and Radcliffe students quickly signed a petition asking the CAB to be merciful...
...Swinburned sentimentalist. Although he has lived abroad for 18 years, most of them on the island of Majorca, he does not speak a foreign language. His son Dodge, a senior at New York's Hamilton College, recalls an awkward scene one day when Fielding kept telling a Spanish cab driver that he wanted to pick up some cojónes (testicles); he meant cajónes (boxes). In his politics, Fielding leans to the right, but he bends over leftward when it comes to cigars (Cuban) and stands up straight when it means business. As he explains in the style book...
...cute." He is against marijuana, at least until harsh legal penalties are relaxed, and urges parents to suggest moderate alternatives when teenage behavior is likely to hurt others. He approvingly quotes a father who told his son: "If you feel high, ask your date to drive or call a cab. We can get your car back in the morning." Ginott does not flatly condemn premarital intercourse, but simply pleads that parents provide their children with some sense of the psychology of sexual awakening as well as the basic biological facts. Children who ask their parents for contraceptives should be turned...
Responding to the protest, 40 Senators are now co-sponsoring a bill that would extend youth fares even if the CAB votes to discontinue them. A similar bill has been introduced in the House, but the chances are that Congress will not need to act. Impressed by the breadth and sincerity of the student protest, the CAB will probably overrule its examiner sometime soon and let the youngsters continue to fly high at half price...