Word: dix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bell Telephone installs the teletypes, or "consoles," for $75 a month plus line charges, and, according to David D. Dix, associate director of the Harvard Computer Center, is the only institution to clear a profit off time-sharing. For the Computer Center, and for Harvard, the attraction of the SDS 940 lies in its ability to solve comparatively small problems instantly, and to serve users all over the University...
...year later, in 1955, the dance group directed the writing and producing of a pageant about the life of Dorthea Lynde Dix. Miss Dix, famous for her campaigns to improve treatment of the mentally ill, was instrumental in the federal government's founding of St. Elizabeth's a century before...
...differed little between flight-stress days and relaxed, off-duty days. They tallied closely with what Dr. Bourne deduced from flying and talking with the men on dangerous missions. On the average, they showed less reaction to stress than do draftees undergoing basic training at Fort Dix, NJ. When the stress and danger were real, the men suppressed their anxiety and related reactions. One man, an unquestioning Roman Catholic, was convinced that God would look after him. Another, with a parimutuel mentality, had painstakingly taken the reported casualties and calculated the chance that any one man would be killed...
Nonetheless, American ground troops have already vindicated the nation's need for a strong, flexible army. From the training grounds of Fort Dix, where a massive statue of a charging infantryman is respectfully known as The Ultimate Weapon, to Viet Nam where kid infantrymen moved into a solid sheet of fire last month on a single word from a platoon sergeant, Johnny Johnson's soldiers exude a new confidence. They know they...
...should treat its involuntary employees with particular solicitude. A "private's general," he takes pride in the good chow and creature comforts that soften a draftee's adjustment to military life. New men are greeted at reception centers with brass bands. At Fort Jackson, S.C., and Fort Dix, N.J., drafty, double-decker wooden barracks are giving way to modern brick buildings that resemble campus dormitories. They have bathrooms on every level, rooms with from two to eight bunks, telephones, lounge rooms and Laundromats. There are automatic dishwashers and potato-peeling machines for K.P. duty...