Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, granddaddy of the nation's selective service system (he helped lay the groundwork in 1936, became director in 1941), was aware of-and worried about-the problem. Early this year he put staff members to work, and they recommended that married men would be an easily identifiable group to excuse from service without seriously hurting U.S. military manpower needs...
...like another in the long series of racial incidents in the armed forces. It began one evening as a group of Negro soldiers of the 557th Quartermaster Company were returning to their barracks at the big U.S. air-base at Evreux, 62 miles west of Paris. Across the road lay another barracks, housing the 317th Supply Squadron, where the airmen were winding up a "G.I. party," that is, a cleanup before next morning's inspection...
...this Frost seems comic most of the time, the book offers one brief, chilling hint that Frost's relentless self-preoccupation lay at the heart of the tragedies that beset most of the people close to him. His sister and one of his children went insane; another daughter died from tuberculosis. After failing at farming and writing, Frost's only son Carol shot himself. Frost had spent the previous night assuring the boy that he was not a failure. Duly reported to Louis Untermeyer, Carol's last words to his father have a ring of true horror...
...there was'bitter factionalism within the ranks of the G.O.P. legislators. It took Scranton more than a month of hard-nosed, behind-the-scenes persuasion before the legislature passed a bill that raised the sales tax from 4% to 5%. Scranton can now lay claim to a balanced budget -a feat that had been considered impossible only a few months before...
...lay: Selman Waksman, 75, Nobel-prizewinning antibiotics pioneer, in Montevideo's American Hospital after removal of a perforated appendix (despite fears of allergy caused by prolonged contact, doctors successfully used streptomycin, which he helped discover); General Lemuel Shepherd, 67, retired U.S. Marine Corps commandant, in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Md., with a broken arm and possible concussion after being thrown by his horse; Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, 48, in Otis Air Force Base Hospital with pneumonia after his 10-ft. sailboat capsized off Martha's Vineyard. A poor swimmer, Wiesner clung to the boat while his son Joshua...