Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FORCE ROTC College 3 1/2 yrs. 1 1/2 yrs. 1 yr. 6 yrs. OCS 6 mos. 3 1/2 yrs. 1 yr. 1 yr. 6 yrs. Av. Cadets 1 1/2 yrs. 3 yrs. 2 yrs. 1 yr. 7 1/2 yrs. COAST GUARD OCS 4 mos. 3 yrs. 1 2/3 yrs. 1 yr. 6 yrs. The above chart lists the various training programs for officers. The ROTC programs must be entered as an incoming freshman, and therefore only the OCS (Officers Candidate School), PLC (Platoon Leaders Class) and OCC (Officers Candidate Corps) plans are of interest to most college men. PCT stands...
...government. In some cases, the transfer of authority was grudging; in others, power was being grabbed before responsibility was proved. But a surprising part of the changeover was an orderly transfer of sovereignty. One by one they made the headlines-from Ghana on West Africa's Gold Coast to Singapore in the Far East, to the West Indies federation in the Caribbean...
...Punjab, one Congress candidate lost a state assembly seat to his estranged wife, who cornered the female vote with detailed accounts of her opponent's shortcomings as a husband. The only serious threat to Congress dominance, however, developed in the impoverished, densely populated Malabar Coast state of Kerala, where the Communists won a plurality in the state assembly. So long as the Reds did not win an absolute majority of the 126 assembly seats, Nehru could-and almost certainly would-keep them out of the state government by invoking "President's rule," i.e., appointment of a state governor...
Almost next door to the new Gold Coast state of Ghana lies a far bigger British colony working toward independence. Last week in Eastern Nigeria, one of the three great regions of Britain's West African colonial protectorate, Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe (known as "Zik") won a decisive election on the wrong side of a scandal...
...years a small but recurring sore point between Protestants and Catholics has been the movies' preponderance of Catholic priests over Protestant ministers. Last week George A. Heimrich, West Coast head of. the National Council of Churches' Broadcasting and Film Commission, totted up the 1956 figures on films with Catholic and Protestant themes and happily announced the result: four to one in favor of the Protestants. Lutheran Heimrich gave most of the credit for better Protestant billing to the Council of Churches' campaign to inform producers about Protestantism. One lost battle of the campaign: the council appealed...