Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed, in the House of Representatives, and sent to the Senate a $746 million pay raise for enlisted men who stay in the armed forces for more than two years and officers who remain in service more than three years. The increases range from 6% to 25%, with junior officers getting the highest benefits. The measure is designed to provide incentive to career servicemen...
...Arellano, 38, a Manila architect who witnessed the chaos in Saigon last summer, when hundreds of thousands of refugees fled down from the Communist north. Arellano thought Filipino doctors and nurses might like to help out, so he put it up to the Manila headquarters of the Philippine Junior Chamber of Commerce. "Publicity stunt," argued some Manila skeptics, but last October the first seven Filipino doctors and three Filipino nurses set out for South Viet Nam. Their average age was 25. The Filipinos first set up straw-hut clinics in eight new villages (pop. 95,000) that the refugees were...
...mostly the United States," said a Manila librarian. "I think it's a good thing we're able to help others now." The Filipinos began talking of 3,350,000 treatments in 1955, a training program for more Vietnamese nurses, and village first-aid squads. The International Junior Chamber of Commerce has adopted the project, and Jaycees from other Asian countries want to join...
...segregationist Citizens Council of Indianola, Miss. offered a $50 prize for the best essay written as part of the required work in the high-school's junior and senior English classes. Subject of the essay: "The Advantages to Both Races of Continued Separate Schools...
...Critic Georges Charensol asked key artists, museum directors, collectors and critics to name the top painters who have come into their own since the liberation of France. The list of the top ten,* published in the current Connaissance des Arts, adds up to not much more than a workmanlike junior varsity of artists who are still struggling with the lessons and problems handed down to them by the older generation...