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...response to student demand, the first Army unit on campus was created in 1915 when 1200 students joined an extracurricular drill team a few days after its creation. The Navy soon followed with its own ROTC program in 1926, and the Air Force established ROTC at Harvard...
...circus, its one concession to modernity being polyvinyl rather than canvas. It is a long, low tent sheltering five rings. In the mornings men and elephants erect it, and in the evenings they take it apart. The drill, for 16,000 miles and 20 states, is rise before dawn, drive to the next town, set up, perform, usually at 2 p.m. and again at 8, collapse the tent, sleep, get up, load and drive. The highest-paid acts--whole family troupes that shoulder chores across the board, from flying high to walking nags--get $2,400 a week, in cash...
...University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, employ learning crutches (e.g., tape- assisted reading or tutors during tests), Landmark's 82 students take the work straight as it comes, with lots of it. From 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., five days a week, some students in a special precollege group drill at tasks as elementary as multiplication tables and beginners' reading. Each precollege student also takes a daily one-hour private tutorial...
...many Californians, the proposal makes no sense. If the world is awash in oil and petroleum prices are plunging, then why do energy companies want or need to drill for additional supplies of crude off the U.S. coasts? Nonetheless, despite the crash in the oil market, the Federal Government intends to go full speed ahead with its controversial plan to sell a new set of offshore leases. Along the California coastline, where many of the oil tracts are located, environmentalists, fishermen and many politicians are alarmed and angry...
...posters that are most familiar and redolent of the American $ mood over the years. "Keep 'Em on the Run" crys a World War II poster bearing crude caricatures of Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini. In a 1971 Viet Nam- era placard, a Marine drill sergeant braces new recruits with a more subdued slogan: "We Don't Promise You a Rose Garden...