Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widely divergent African factions. In his own land his tight rule is controversial, but from a pragmatic U.S. point of view it has been effective. Ethiopia is fiscally sound, is one of the few nations to repay its lend-lease obligations in full. Selassie dispatched troops to U.N. combat in both Korea and the Congo. He has eagerly accepted 244 U.S. Peace Corpsmen as schoolteachers to raise the literacy standards of his people...
...raise is the first for servicemen since 1958, gives its highest-percentage increases to younger officers and noncoms as incentives to keep them in uniform. For those who are risking their lives in such cold war hot spots as Viet Nam but are technically ineligible for combat pay, there will be an added $55 a month in "hostile fire" pay. No sooner had Congress acted than Defense Secretary McNamara ordered an end to special overseas-duty pay of $8 to $22.50 a month for some 375,000 enlisted men, most of them stationed in Western Europe, Japan and Hawaii. Another...
...only time anything is surprising in the Ivy League is when a team plays according to form. Last Saturday, in their first day of combat, the Ivy teams produced few surprises...
Last week, in prime evening time, NBC bravely sent Mr. Novak to war against ABC's Combat, and CBS's Marshal Dillon on the theory that he can divert millions of viewers from shooting to scholarship. His "Jefferson High," founded at MGM's Culver City studios, is based on research at 50 live high schools. In real life Novak is Actor James Franciscus, 29, onetime flatfoot on Naked City. He went to Taft and Yale and never attended a public school, but he is handsomer than TV Hardin and can speak real English out of both sides...
Producer Neuman says that later shows will break the rules more freely, deal with such pressing problems as cheating, rebellious teachers, race prejudice, and at least one ten-minute drill in the classroom. This may not keep the boys away from Combat, but if Actor Franciscus can hold the girls, Mr. Novak will graduate with honors...