Word: losses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contrast the Fordham experience with the vicious attacks at Boston University which caused this year's freshman enrollment in Army ROTC to drop 58 per cent, one of the largest losses in the nation. As a matter of interest, Harvard's freshman enrollment in Army ROTC dropped 37 per cent this year, also more than the national average; but the loss was more than compensated by a record-shattering gain of 308 per cent in Military Science III enrollment--largely students from the Harvard Law School...
...cases where prisoners finally do break down and sign incriminating confessions, the rest of the military should perhaps follow the lead of the Air Force and discount the propaganda loss. Anyone, friend or enemy, who is persuaded by a forced confession doubtless had his mind already made up. Moreover, propaganda can backfire. The fact that it has been gained through the abuse of prisoners repels people. When the North Vietnamese put captured U.S. flyers on exhibit in Hanoi, foreign reaction was so adverse that the Vietnamese never restaged the spectacle...
Then, by a single desperate act, Czechoslovaks were more stunned and stirred than at any time since the invasion. In the main square of downtown Prague, a student had protested his country's loss of freedom by setting himself afire...
Countries made this shift largely by trading dollars for U.S. gold. During 1968, the U.S. lost $1.2 billion in gold, leaving the U.S. with only $10.9 billion of the metal to meet $30 billion of potential foreign claims against the dollar. Though most of the loss came before April and the U.S. gold stock has stabilized since the two-tier system was set up, the total is low enough to cause concern. Warns Vice President Harold
...about $900,000 apiece, and more than the market value for one lost Viscount. The new Boeing 707 is expected to bring $8,500,000, roughly what it cost. The eighth gutted plane, a VC-10, was on charter from Ghana Airways, and MEA is not responsible for its loss...