Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First of all, stop worrying, for the Army isn't so bad after all. You'll be surprised at the intelligence of your barracks-mates, many of whom will be college graduates. After the first three weeks, which are rather distressing, there will be ample time for Service Club dances, which are no worse than Jolly Ups, or the well-stocked camp libraries, or other divertissements...
...good idea to enlist; the enlistee is a member of the Regular Army rather than the Army of the United States, and the President can keep him in as long as he likes. Many soldiers who enlisted for two years have been kept for three; though that isn't being done this year, it may if the Korean War gets worse. Draftees cannot be kept for three years except by act of Congress...
About being an officer. Almost every Harvard graduate will qualify, but do you want to? Officers must go through four more months or rugged training; they're in the Army for half a year longer or more; they are always being called back from the reserve. Their extra pay isn't as much as it sounds; officers are responsible for equipment that enlisted men lose, and must pay for it from their own pockets...
...family baronetcy (but not the barony), Rear Admiral Arthur Lionel Ochoncar Forbes-Sempill, 74, considered his new status. "As uncle of the present peer. I succeed," he told a reporter. "According to Scottish law, a girl can't. But Ewan . . . dammit, that's a bit different, isn...
...Alton Jones, president of Cities Service Co., the twelfth-biggest U.S. oil company. Three weeks ago, on Mossadegh's personal invitation, "Pete" Jones hustled to Iran, looked over the Abadan refinery, nosed around the oilfields. What was Jones up to? Last week Jones would say only: "My job isn't yet finished...