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More than a million American men have good reason to remember the place vividly, if not fondly: Fort Dix, N.J., was where they suffered through basic training. But if the Pentagon has its way. the rites of passage that have continued since 1917 at the center 75 long, long miles from New York City will be coming to an end. In a sweeping economy drive to whittle $264 million from its annual budget, the Pentagon last week announced plans to close down or reduce 157 military facilities, including the famous basic training center at Fort Dix. More than...
...three brothers all played together for the Half Hollow Hills High soccer team in Dix Hills, Long Island. And the summer before Walter's freshman year, the threesome toured together with a team visiting Germany. Walter was a center forward, Michael played center half, and Tony, the youngest Diaz, took right wing in the family combo, so there must have been a few Diaz to Diaz to Diaz combinations...
...baby face and little pigtails that stick out underneath her cap, and she describes herself as a "free spirit." But for Army 2nd Lieut. Stratton, succeeding in a man's world means being tough. As one of two female company executive training officers at Fort Dix, N.J., Stratton is in charge of 250 recruits and 18 drill sergeants of Charlie Company. The company is 95% male, and the recruits test Stratton. TIME Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan watched her in action and filed this report...
...Bauhaus and its circle, and on international constructivism. "Paris-Berlin" overlaps the earlier shows in those areas; many of the "classics" of the '20s, like Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's light-space modulators and constructivist paintings, or the ferocious social satires of George Grosz and Otto Dix, or the Dada visions of mechanized man by Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Hoch, are on view again in Paris. But the new show deepens the argument by paying more attention to the social and political aims of the German artists and to the country's expressionist art that preceded the outbreak...
...Tasty--Boylston St. You lose. The food here is about as appetizing as the menu in a Fort Dix mess hall, and the atmosphere is nowhere near as cheerful. Avoid, and your small intestine will love you forever...