Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Originally, this plan outlined a full universal military service program, one that would require all eighteen-year olds to serve two years on active duty and several more in the reserves. Because it called for inducting all young men by age group, it would have meant the end of Selective Service...
Congress had transformed it into a mixture of Selective Service and Universal Military Training; UMS had been altogether purged. Now called UMT (as opposed to UMST), the new version would give all eighteen-year-olds six months of training and put them in the reserves for seven and one-half years more. Beyond this point, army-raising would operate at it does now. The Armed Forces would induct reservists as well as men in the nineteen to twenty-six age group by means of Selective Service...
Finally, another private pressure group--the Joint Committee against Communism--started circulating a list of eighteen college professors that it finds politically objectionable, and is calling for legislative action against them. In a new twist on the principle of "innocent until proved guilty," the Joint Committee declares that it is up to the professors to prove their fitness to teach in the face of its accusations...
...refused the job because he could not "accept or associate myself with the limitation on academic freedom that governs the regular faculty." When pressed by this writer for an explanation of his refusal, Maass explained that the loyalty oath itself was not the issue, but rather the firing of eighteen qualified instructors for their refusal to sign...
...task of lifting Marie du Port out of the muck of mediocrity therefore falls to Gabin. He succeeds. The story--a middle-aged man's vain attempts to stay away from an appealing eighteen-year-old--is not particularly sparkling, nor are the camera shots of a small French fishing village particularly interesting. But the terse, emotional dialogue is admirably suited to Gabin's soft, husky voice. Regrettably, the English subtitles often mangle his throaty speeches. In one scene he clutches Miss Brunoy's shoulders and painfully breathes out the confession of his infatuation. The English subtitle coldly states...