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...mistakes of previous regimes that allowed the German army to become a state within the state, Bonn may have downgraded the postwar armed forces too far-the defense share of the federal budget has dropped from 28% in 1965 to 22.6% this year. Few soldiers wear their uniforms on furlough. Many German girls boast that they would never date a soldier in uniform. The uniform itself -gray and baggy-faithfully reflects the army's lack of prestige...
...once look almost like real people fat, scrawny, drab, sassy, ordinary. He is caught up in a Jell-O ad, in which a snatch of conversation and a glimpse of beaming faces around the dinner table capture the mood and moment of a young soldier home on furlough. He is washed in nostalgia as a Kodak spot scans a lifetime by focusing on a greying couple as they rummage through old snapshots. Says Adman David Ogilvy: "The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife." Adwoman Mary Wells, president of Wells, Rich, Greene, sounds the credo...
...hoary fiat has produced its measure of anguish and hilarity over the years. Its seriocomic aspects surfaced last week in the court-martial of a Viet Nam-bound private who said "I won't go," and didn't, and the troubles of a private first class on furlough who was told to await new orders, and did-for 18 unregimented months...
...ricochet from such economic losses has made politicians more eager than usual to intervene in strikes. Nine states are affected by a strike of 20,000 truckers who haul 60% of finished steel from the mills, which has led to shootings, dynamitings, traffic tie-ups and the furlough of 15,000 steelworkers because their plants have run out of space in which to stack up undelivered steel. The yearly rate of steel shipments is down by about 1,500,000 tons. Pennsylvania's Governor Raymond P. Shafer last week asked the governors of eight other steel-producing states...
...drafted in September and, after completing Basic Training, entered army meric school in Texas. Presently, he is spending his furlough in Cambridge before entering Officers Candidate School. He scored 97 out of 100 on the National Draft Test...