Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schaefer, organization has paid dividends ever since his World War II army days, when he found himself assigned to a Special Services unit under the command of Major Maurice Evans. After some 50 wartime shows, including Macbeth and the G.I. Hamlet, Civilian Schaefer directed Civilian Evans in Hamlet on Broadway, went on to the Dallas State Fair for six seasons, co-produced (with Evans) The Teahouse of the August Moon, and then settled in for a long run at Hallmark...
...York City police lieutenant who was off duty when he shot and killed a 15-year-old Negro in 1964, thus triggering six nights of rioting in Harlem and Brooklyn. Gilligan became the symbol of Negro demands that New York disarm off-duty cops and set up a civilian review board to curb police "brutality." Civil rights groups plastered Harlem with his picture under the heading WANTED FOR MURDER...
Hershey praises the Peace Corps and similiar civilian organizations, but he believes that any proposals which made them substitutes for military service would be opposed by Congress. The law which established the Peace Corps specifically states that service in the Corps should not be regarded by local boards as grounds for exemption. "Until recently," says the General, "we've been able to give these Peace Corps people deferments only because we've been careful to tell Congress exactly what we've been doing and convince them we're not putting anything over on them. The rising quotas are making...
...Drive. Coeds at the University of Texas have written 700 letters to U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam, although Sophomore Barinetta Scott explains that "this is not a pro Viet Nam policy project, it's pro American boys." At Stanford 380 students volunteered to give blood for military and civilian casualties in South Viet Nam; Ohio State held a similar "bleed-in." Michigan State students "adopted" the village of Lang Yen, 60 miles north of Saigon, and so far have sent $740 to help build a school and a marketplace. Two groups have sprung up at Williams to ridicule...
Counter demonstrators, FBI members civilian and military police, and curious onlookers almost outnumbered the roughly 60 anti-war pickets. The marches came primarily from the New England Committee for Nonviolent Action and the University of Massachusetts Students for a Democratic Society...