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...that of any large corporation. As such, many educators feel that it should no longer have its special status on the campus to aid its recruiting of college students. Even if ROTC programs lose this status, however, the result would not be an elitist officer corps, as opponents of "dis-crediting" ROTC often charge. Today's army requires highly educated college graduates. The military academies alone cannot provide them. The nation no longer needs special ROTC programs to "civilianize" the military, if only because many of today's career officers are technicians in uniform...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: HOW ROTC Got Started . . . | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...easy to say that Americans have become too self ish to cooperate in attacking social ills. For all the present dis sent and division, all sorts of people throughout the country remain compassionate and responsive to need. Clearly, those qualities in the national character form a vital resource that can be tapped by leaders with drive, purpose and exciting ideas - witness foreign aid, foundations, philanthropy. Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has contributed $115.6 billion in aid to other nations - a massive contribution, not withstanding the fact that it also served U.S. policy - and supplemented the official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What is holding us back? | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...showed that a slew of senior State Department officials have chipped in to re-elect Rooney. Among them: Angier Biddle Duke, Ambassador to Denmark, $100; Perry Culley, Consul General in Paris, $300; Charles Manning, Consul General in Bermuda, $1,000; William Foster, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Dis armament Agency, $300; Michel Cie-plinski, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administrative Affairs, $500; Frank Meyer, Special Assistant for Congressional Relations, $400. In all, 13 State Department officials and the wife of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration, Idar Rimstad, contributed $4,175 to the Rooney coffers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Re-electing Rooney | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...cause of the erratic wobbling motion has long been a geophysical mystery. Elaborate calculations have shown that without great forces to sustain the wobble, it would be effectively damped out in as little as 30 years. Now, after dis carding several other theories, scientists have found convincing evidence that it is caused and sustained by major earthquakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geophysics: The Wandering Poles | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...beat him twice - with the aid of a "rabbit" (pacesetter) named Hedevar. In their two other matches, Hedevar was stabled, and Dr. Fager whipped Damascus handily. Dr. Pager's other defeat was in last year's Jersey Derby, which he won by 61 lengths only to be dis qualified because Jockey Manuel Ycaza permitted him to cut across the pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: The Doctor Is the Best | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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