Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defense officials believe that 85% of the reclassified draftees will eventually graduate from basic training; they will not only be able to perform about one-third of the military jobs now held by others, but will be trained in skills that later can be useful in civilian life. Mc Namara intends to use the resources of the Defense Department's own educational system, the world's largest, to train the men for all the services. He also suggested a complete re-examination of the whole concept of aptitude tests, saying that there is "ample evidence" that some...
Instead, Erhard returned to Bonn and publicly backed up his Defense Minister, accepting his nominations for new commanders to fill the place of the retiring generals. For one thing, Erhard did not want to set the precedent of firing a civilian Defense Minister just because a few generals were angry with him. For another, Von Hassel, the former minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein, commands the Protestant northern wing of the Christian Democratic Union, and Erhard does not want to offend some of his staunchest supporters...
...greeted Lin as "dear comrade," and when time came for speeches it was Lin, not Mao, who did the talking. As an added endorsement Mao, who regularly wears civilian clothes, turned out in a soldier's uniform identical to Lin's. Later, when the official list of dignitaries present at the rally was published, Lin's name appeared just under Mao's. Red China's longtime No. 2 man, Theoretician Liu Shao-chi, 68, was in seventh place...
...hour if the cost of living keeps rising at about its present pace. With that, the mechanics will not only keep their rank as the nation's top-paid industrial production workers (runners-up: oil workers, at $3.37 an hour), but will also collect more than civilian pilot instructors at U.S. Air Force bases, who average $3.60 an hour...
Operation Harelip. The Army, which operates most of the U.S. military hospitals in Viet Nam, is hesitant about letting its medics take on civilian care, insisting that "our mission is to support our own troops." After a rash of plastic surgery for cleft-palate victims won the nickname "Operation Harelip" for all U.S. compassionate services, the Army officially put aid to civilians on an "emergency only" basis, partly on the ground that noisy children were disturbing sick servicemen...