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Skirts Among the Uniforms. In trying to meet the mood of changing times, most academies are re-examining the "Mickey Mouse" discipline that few parents seem to want any more. Pennsylvania's Valley Forge Military Academy has cut drill from three practices a week to one. Texas Military Institute now permits civilian clothes on weekends...
...Drill and KP. At 11:30 the students hear the first of two daily lectures on Jewish history and culture; two more hours of karate classes are given in the afternoon. There is also occasional instruction in rappelling on the rocky camp escarpments. "The arms training may be to protect Jewish shopkeepers," explains Robert Glass, 15. Says another trainee, Larry Amsel, 19: "Scaling rocks may be preparation for scaling buildings in case of an outbreak of urban guerrilla warfare...
...colors-a small American flag above a larger Israeli flag -are lowered. The rest of the time the campers practice close-order drill, pull KP and read some of the library's 200-odd books. Among the most popular are Treblinka, by Jean-François Steiner, and While Six Million Died, by Arthur D. Morse, which accuses Franklin D. Roosevelt of slackness in coming to the aid of Hitler's victims. One book is required reading: The Palestine Underground, by Y. Borisov. For good behavior, campers can earn a weekly pass that allows them to go into...
Then the Marine Silent Drill Team appears. Ten minutes of movements without commands, every exercise counted out; circles, squares, lines through lines and, finally, one long line of 24 Marines ready for inspection. Sergeant John Marley, the inspector, grabs a presented rifle. He whirls it, twists it, winds it round his shoulders, again and again with baton-twirler precision, and then flings it back. Next the double inspection-also known as "the mirror." Marley exchanges rifles with another Marine, and they repeat the routine, movements perfectly synchronized, rifles beating the air before being flipped back with the same seemingly casual...
PERHAPS the encounter with the naked masturbator reveals more than the obvious elements of black humor. Certainly, it was a little frightening; officially so frightening, in fact, that the cops had to be called in, a fire drill held and all of Barnard Hall evacuated at 2 a.m. so that every last room could be checked to make sure the poor naked dude wasn't lurking behind some bookcase. It was, also, unquestionably, a bit pathetic. Any man who has to get his kicks by displaying himself in front of a bunch of weary, bleary-eyed Radcliffe girls must first...