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...American Medical Association meeting, Dr. Kurland offered as a prime example the case of a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman, aged 20, who wanted to re-enlist after two years of duty. To meet the Navy's physical requirements, he had to drop 50 lbs., and while on a rigorous diet in the metabolic ward of the Naval Hospital in Oakland he lost weight fast. No sooner was he back on duty than he discovered that his newfound slimness was a surprising disadvantage. He was expected to do chores from which he had formerly been excused. His wife expected...
...from indicating discrimination, actually add to the evidence that the Negro has found in the armed forces the fair and opportunity-full society that is still rare in most sections of civilian life. Some of the units with the highest percentages of Negroes are all-volunteer, and Negroes re-enlist in the Army at a rate (49%) nearly four times that of whites...
...Service officials admit the local boards will follow any formula the national headquarters hands them -- they have too many men to classify to do otherwise -- and that the guidelines have been left vague on the theory that a man unsure of his draft status is a man who may enlist...
Radical Overhaul. In their effort to put housing on a sounder long-term footing, builders and materials suppliers are concentrating on ways to reduce housing's financial dependence on S & Ls, mutual savings and commercial banks and life-insurance companies. U.S. Plywood, for example, is trying to enlist other big firms in a plan to form a corporation to provide the top 15% of 90% -mortgageloans, thus enabling conventional lenders to stretch their funds further. Last week N.A.H.B. urged the Government to expand the Federal National Mortgage Association, now confined by law to the purchase...
...match the hot-eyed fury of Jesus Raza (Jack Palance). "What a name for the bloodiest cutthroat in Mexico!" roars Land Baron Ralph Bellamy. "Last week he kidnaped my wife." When the contraband wife is $100,000 worth of woman like Claudia Cardinale, matters are urgent enough to enlist Lee Marvin as a former Rough Rider, Woody Strode as a cunning scout, Robert Ryan as a nail-hard ex-cavalryman, and Burt Lancaster as a passionate explosives expert with a yen for "100-proof whisky, 90-proof women and 14-karat gold...