Word: joined
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Faced with this severe manpower problem, the Pentagon in January, 1957, authorized all men 17-26 to join the program. This brought in large numbers of men in their twenties who preferred the RFA program to two years from Selective Service (and two years in the Ready Reserve). In addition, the Army reduced the Ready Reserve time to encourage more teen-age enlistments. At present, the Ready Reserve obligations for men 17-18 1/2 is three years, and for men 18 1/2-26, five-and-a-half. Pay is now $78 a month while on active duty...
Initial response to the enlarged program caught even the most optimistic recruiters by surprise. One sergeant, with several years' experience, said, while processing my papers, "This is the first time I can ever remember men standing on line to join the Army," and he was not exaggerating. So many men rushed to take advantage of the short hitch, that by May, 1957, the Army had to stop accepting enlistments. Over 3,000 men a week were joining; the previous high was about a thousand. The program was reopened on a limited basis during the summer, but in many locales there...
Perhaps more than anyone else, McCormack will be guided this year by the 1958 election results. In the 85th Congress he knew that every time he scheduled a New Dealish labor or welfare bill for floor action, he could expect about 40 Southern conservatives to join with a big majority of the 200 House Republicans in blocking the legislation. But there are far fewer Republicans, far more liberal Democrats in the 86th Congress. "We have a good working majority," says McCormack. "The coalition will be ineffective." Another McCormack rule of thumb: the later in the session that a piece...
...that month, been ousted when the Italian people narrowly voted out the monarchy and voted in a republic. She was raised in exile in a seaside villa at Cascais in Portugal, and, when she was 17, she took leave of her dethroned father and her English governess to join her mother, Queen Marie José, in Switzerland and attend Geneva University...
...demanded a Cabinet member. "I can't even have a private interview with him. Pretty soon he's going to be really running this government or not running it at all. Privately, Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona submitted his resignation, demanding that Castro join the Cabinet or stop dictating the show. Castro drove to Miro's home and patched things up. Castro's choice as successor "if I am killed": his brother Raul, 28, chill-eyed commander in Santiago, where 100 have been shot...