Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hell with It." It began in West Berlin in July 1957, after Airman Second Class Thompson, then 22, had been chewed out by his commanding officer because he needed a shave. That night Thompson drowned his resentment in cognac, brooded about his job as a clerk in the Office of Special Investigation at Berlin's Tempelhof Air Base. "You lived in a state of terror," he recalled. "Everyone in our office was watching someone. We all watched each other...
After 20 shots of cognac, Thompson "decided to hell with it." He walked into East Berlin wearing civilian clothes; no one checked his pass. He contacted Communist intelligence officers, said he wanted to defect. Three men questioned him for six hours in the sun porch of a private house overlooking a lake. Thompson was pretty drunk; the Soviets told him they didn't think he would be a good spy and sent him back...
...montagnards fought well because most had their families with them," said an American adviser. "These people are ruthless when it comes to life or death. One guy was in a bunker, completely cut off, and the V.C. called on him to surrender. He told them to go to hell and ran down the hill...
...Crazy as Hell." The boys live in groups of six or fewer in a remodeled city hospital, with one counselor assigned to each 15 students for 24-hour guidance. Class sizes range from 20 down to individual tutoring. Reading clinics never have more than five students. The concentrated instruction is confined to basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, relies on oral explanations, uses no standard texts. The school's accent is on the positive: boys earn merits, never demerits, are rewarded progressively with a school jacket, pins for the jacket, a school sweater...
...director, Dr. Gordon McAndrew, 38, a University of California Ph.D. who had headed a $2,000,000 project for the slum kids of Oakland's public schools, first heard of the North Carolina plan, he scoffed: "Anybody who'd get involved in that must be crazy as hell." But he did. Now he calls it "the most exciting experiment in education in America today." The thrill, he explains, comes in plucking the slipping student out of his failure-filled environment at the eighth-grade level-"about the last point of intervention where you can hope to make...