Word: enlistments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted it badly enough to enlist in the Marines at 14, a career that ended without glory when his mother followed him to the training camp and reclaimed him. But when he was 17, his parents allowed him to quit school and leave for the Army, a time-honored ritual in coal-country. His father gave him a gruff word of advice; his mother didn't cry. Thus began a quarter of a century of excellence in service of America, service that has not yet ended...
What was really interesting about last Spring, though, was not the weather in relation to Harvard undergraduates. The curious fact was that there was any student activism at all. The previous 18 months had been noticeably quiet; it was hard to imagine what group, or which issue, could enlist sufficient support to mount a large protest. The controversy over the Counter Teach-In in 1971 had only just reached the boiling point; Richard Herrnstein's theory of I.Q. hardly seemed worth risking expulsion by the CRR, except to a few members of Progressive Labor...
OVER the next two years, the leaders of the 93rd Congress face not only the usual legislative tasks but also the enormous job of revitalizing the Congress itself. The effort will enlist a wide variety of newcomers and veterans. Among those who will play the principal roles in that effort...
Though he chaired the most important wartime committee in Congress -the Truman committee acted as watchdog over defense-Harry tried to enlist in the Army. He went to see Army Chief of Staff George Marshall...
When the National Institute of Mental Health in 1968 first launched its nationwide mass-media campaign against drug abuse, many other organizations also took up the cause, and regiments of film makers and pamphleteers rushed forward to enlist-and, not coincidentally, to acquire some of the Government money that was made available. Last week the National Coordinating Council on Drug Education announced an assessment of these films-and it was a distinct downer...