Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEAN: It's no good, son. Once the civilian and the military start arguing, it can go on for years...
...troops in combat v. 11% of the U.S. population -is a sign of discrimination. But the numbers, far from indicating discrimination, actually add to the evidence that the Negro has found in the armed forces the fair and opportunity-full society that is still rare in most sections of civilian life. Some of the units with the highest percentages of Negroes are all-volunteer, and Negroes re-enlist in the Army at a rate (49%) nearly four times that of whites...
Corps of Integrity. The military academy expects its students to pick up most of their specialized military and technical knowledge in summer training and after they leave the Point-and 60% of them eventually do go on to civilian graduate schools at Army expense. Today, technical instruction at the Point emphasizes such versatile new tools as the computer. Every cadet must take at least 40 hours of basic instruction in the use of the Point's three GE 225 computers...
...After the transit strike came a fare hike, and neither of them endeared him to voters. Faced with an empty treasury, he imposed a new city income tax and made the New York Stock Exchange consider exile across the Hudson because of an increased stock-transfer tax. His cherished civilian-controlled board to review complaints against the police was ignominiously defeated 2 to 1 at the polls in November. Even nature seemed to be conspiring against him last month when a canopy of poisonous smog mantled the city for three days...
...Angeles or San Francisco. No fewer than 18 airlines are begging the CAB to let them put new flights on the Honolulu route. Already, tourists spend $300 million a year, making tourism Hawaii's largest civilian source of income, larger than the pineapple and sugar businesses combined. To accommodate them, some $350 million worth of hotel construction has gone up in the past five years. The boom has also created new jobs to absorb the unemployment created by automation on the plantations. Tourism's latest and most exciting surge is now to outer Oahu and what the Hawaiians...