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...demographic reasons, the manpower squeeze is going to get even tighter. Because of generally declining birth rates since 1960, a decreasing number of Americans will be reaching the minimum military enlistment age of 18 in the 1980s. The Pentagon will have an ever more difficult time getting enough recruits to maintain the armed forces at their present strength of 2 million. In view of this prospect, there has been a revived questioning of the concept of the all-volunteer force, which was started...
MAINTAINING social events in the Houses was the main reason for happy hours, and the main reason why students are scrambling to find some way around the rules. It's not that difficult, because private parties are untouched by the rules, and in at least one House, the happy hours are being served there. And post-football game celebrations, invariably sanctioned by masters, draw crowds to huge House celebrations: Dunster's "zorbels" (otherwise known as a punch powerful enough to flatten Ali), a hot cider and rum at Winthrop and a BYOB bask at Mather. Other Houses are holding...
Courageous and difficult endeavors such as these must of course be applauded by concerned Bostonians. But until blatant acts of disregard for the property, security, and civil rights of others receive the punishment they deserve--regardless of who commits these acts--Boston will remain an expanse of separate minefields...
...another set of limitations. The Da Capo edition of The Jazz Makers is actually a reprint of a book published by Rinehart in 1957. Although Da Capo reveals this significant bit of information only in the copyright, the text proclaims its age on nearly every page. It is difficult to imagine a contemporary anthology of jazz personalities without Davis, Monk, Mingus, and Coltrane but the only modernists in The Jazz Makers are Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, both of whose innovations were widespread by 1950. Equally dated are the trite explications of black American "customs." Charles Edward Smith's profile...
...difficult to tell entirely whether Mailer or various tape recorders are to be congratulated for The Executioner's Song. Mailer seems to have undertaken the project mostly for money. He never met Gilmore but acquired an immense pile of tapes from a hustler named Larry Schiller, the entrepreneur who had earlier promoted deals involving Jack Ruby, Marilyn Monroe and Susan Atkins of the Manson gang. Mailer spent additional weeks interviewing Gilmore's family, his girlfriend Nicole Barrett, and surrounding bit players...