Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student loans offered by the military. "Students know that if they go in and become, say, nuclear-weapons specialists, they can come out and demand a salary of $60,000 a year," says History Professor James Leutze, who heads the ROTC board at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Military salaries, while not always competitive with those paid for comparable jobs in the private sector, are more than respectable, especially considering the wide array of benefits that are available: free medical care, room and board, and PX privileges. Monthly pay for a recruit is $574; for a sergeant...
...When I turned the pages of those volumes, my doubts gradually dissolved. I am now satisfied they are authentic." He said he was prepared "to stake my reputation" on their authenticity. Newsweek Consultant Gerhard Weinberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill went to the same bank vault and reported that "my preliminary feeling was that they looked genuine." But he had reservations and said that much more study would be needed to be certain...
Much of the money came from investors who could ill afford to lose it. St. Michael's Church of Life in Unionville, Conn., sent in $278,000 that its 200 members had set aside for the construction of a new chapel. Patricia Bear, 52, a divorcee who lives in a mobile home in Denison, Texas, is out $46,000. Says she: "I'm in a terrible financial bind. I sent them my life savings, but evidently they are a bunch of crooks...
...Chapel Hill...
...worked from 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. hauling coal and ashes at a power plant. He starred on the debating team, ran on the track squad, made Phi Beta Kappa, but lost his first election: for student-body president. When his oratorical skills took him to a contest in Chapel Hill, N.C., "it was the farthest north I had ever been...