Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam ? civilians made the major decisions ? popular frustration vents itself to a large extent on the military command. The Pueblo incident, the Arnheiter affair and technological bobbles like the F-111 have further diminished public trust in the competence of military leadership. Dr. Daniel Fink, a former Pentagon engineer, who has frequently debated on the pro side of ABM, worries about "the belief that these decisions are made by fat, cigar-chewing generals laughing among themselves about billions of dol lars and megadeaths...
...This shirt I'm wearing is not half as good as the ones I could buy years ago. The things that are getting better are cars and perhaps airplanes--I hope so, I'm going up in one Sunday. We only fly upon the crashes of former planes. It's the detailed reports on crashes that keep...
There were two other highlights for Harvard partisans. Captain Martie Chalfie romped to victory in the butterfly, and workhorse Steve Krause broke his own Harvard record in the 1000-free with a 10:19.6 clocking. This was 1.2 seconds better than the former mark...
...their relationships to the faculty, their department, and the University are tenuous, ambiguous, and generally unsatisfactory. They had hoped that graduate student life would involve stimulating interchange, not only within the areas of their specialties but extending to other intellectual realms that interest them. They find little of the former and less of the latter...
...resulting humiliations. Kondry, as an example, had been through a reform school, labelled "Reformed," and thrown back into society only to find he couldn't get a job. China, for them, offers material promise, but not the emotional comfort the men need. The dilemma is captured in a former farmboy (Andrew Wilking) who can't quite master the prevalent jargon. When Barnholdt goads him with stories about home, the boy shouts, "Stop talking like that or next accusation period, I'm going to criticize you. You asshole-aggressive...