Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam's townsfolk and peasantry have always been prey to tuberculosis, malaria, cholera and plague. Now they need modern doctoring, particularly orthopedic surgery, even more urgently, because they are frequent victims of Viet Cong shot and shell. The medical mercy mission was proposed by President Johnson early last year, and Dr. William B. Walsh, the persuasive head of the People-to-People Health Foundation (which sponsors the hospital ship Hope), agreed to run a pilot program...
...Clerk, would withdraw as many names as General Hersey suggests. A simple lottery -- it is the only equitable method. Ideally, the selection could be made but once a year, thereby guaranteeing the non-selected twelve months of security. But under war conditions, man-power needs fluctuate erratically, and more frequent lotteries would no doubt be needed. Still, it would be possible to continue the 1-S deferment, providing most of the selected students a term to put their affairs in order. A similar mechanism should be devised for non-students...
...that the attack has shown some spark, perhaps the Crimson's overworked defense can straighten itself out. The defense has not been able to put four good periods together and has undergone frequent lapses...
Slaps & Punches. For two months, things went pleasantly enough. Then one day Paula Baniszewski, now 11, hit Sylvia on the jaw so hard that Paula broke her wrist. Paula's mother took to slapping Sylvia for ever more frequent, if imagined, offenses. She did not complain to her parents when they made a visit in early October. After that, her tormentors became increasingly sadistic. John Baniszewski Jr., now 13, and two neighbor boys, diabetic Richard Dean ("Ricky") Hobbs and Coy Hubbard, both 15, joined the laceration game. Sylvia was burned with matches and cigarettes, whipped with a heavy leather...
...Everyone says there is something different about today's college student," says Kenneth Keniston, 36, assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale. From his undergraduate days at Harvard ('51) through years as a Rhodes scholar, Harvard junior fellow and frequent campus-hopper elsewhere, Keniston has been fascinated by what it is that makes one generation of students different from another. In the current issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine, he sets up some perceptive categories, each devastatingly cartooned by Artist Robert Osborn (Yale...