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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will work in the facilities is still a question. "The Faculty Standing Committee reviews the applications for the work to be done there so I don't know yet who will be working there," Leahy commented...
Revolutionary War buffs came to New Jersey from as far away as California, Florida and Ontario to replay the battle. They included a seventh-generation descendant of Molly Pitcher-Elizabeth Hays, 17, of Carlisle, Pa.-who carried water to parched Continental cannoneers, as her ancestor had done 200 years earlier. Many participants have faced each other on past battlegrounds; in fact, most plan family vacations around them. Said Maveret Daigle of Albany, whose husband fought at Monmouth: "I never used to go on these, until a very pretty woman told me what fun my husband was on these re-enactments...
These are only a few of the exotica cited by British Journalist Peter Watson, 35, as evidence of the increasing reliance of the U.S. armed forces on the work of psychologists. Indeed, studies done for the military cost $68 million this year, about 35% of all federally funded psychological research. In his new book, War on the Mind (Basic Books, $17.50), Watson says that the Pentagon's forays into psychology "outrank most other military research projects when it comes to cruelty, deception, ingenuity and sheer absurdity...
...enthusiastic about the printed propaganda that he wrote some of the pieces himself, and in one typical month in 1969, the U.S. dropped 713 million leaflets over Viet Nam. At least a few pilots developed their own distribution system, dropping leaflets in tied bales to get the chore done quickly. Sometimes the system worked. One harried Viet Cong defector told Americans that his will to resist was broken one day by an astonishing incident: an enormous bundle of papers fell out of the sky and killed his best friend...
Celibacy. "I just can't accept the notion that a married Protestant minister, all other things being equal, is as free to serve his people as is the celibate Catholic priest ... Nor is there any evidence from the research done that celibate priests are any more insensitive or incapable of intimacy than are married men of the same age and educational experience...