Word: fs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Rusty left high school, things did not go so well. He quit Palm Beach Junior College in Lake Worth after a year, dropping out with two Cs, one D and four Fs in his seven courses. "It just seemed like the 13th year in high school," Calley says now. He had an ulcer at 19. After he left college, he worked as a hotel bellhop, then a restaurant dishwasher. He became a strikebreaking switchman on the Florida East Coast railroad; soon he was promoted to freight-train conductor and earning as much as $300 a week with overtime...
...first G.I.s to enter the hamlet were led by Lieut. Calley, a slight, 5-ft. 3-in. dropout (with four Fs) from Palm Beach Junior College who enlisted in the Army in 1966 and was commissioned in 1967. Some of Calley's men raced from house to house, setting the wooden ones ablaze and dynamiting the brick structures. Others routed the inhabitants out of their bunkers and herded them into groups. Some of them tried to run, said Bernhardt, but "the rest couldn't quite understand what was going on." Sergeant Terry saw a young C Company soldier...
...back. The group's first-quarter grade average was 1.8, and most were placed on probation. Jim Shoaf, who would like to become a jet pilot, is one of those on probation, seems more interested in his motorcycle than in his studies. A Negro girl stared at the Fs on her report card, ran to her dormitory room and attempted suicide...
Though 2,000,000 students are deferred, draft boards will be looking more closely at grades. In all, the classifications of 2,505,540 men-not counting 2,498,023 4-Fs-are being reviewed. Last week, in the course of an optimistic election-eve report on Viet Nam, McNamara predicted that draft calls would be halved during the next four months because of a slower rate of buildup for the war. Nevertheless, Selective Service officials declared, the review of present exemptees will proceed apace, to replenish the manpower drain to date and prepare for contingencies...
...Admiral's Son. Just before Christmas last year, Assistant Professor Kent Ponder, 34, a Spanish teacher, handed out a flock of Fs, including one to Midshipman Donald Minter, the son of a retired admiral who once headed Annapolis. Superintendent Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman, 54, a much-decorated World War II frogman, called in Ponder and several other teachers to discuss Minter's scholastic difficulties-"not in an official capacity, but as a friend of the boy's dad." A few days later Captain Robert S. Hayes, head of the language department, ordered Ponder to conform...