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Basis of the program is a standing-operating-procedure manual, in loose-leaf so that it can be kept up to date with the growing number of poisons used in the modern home. This is no mean trick because of the multiplicity of trade names. Poisonous components are listed with antidotes and other treatments. Parents who telephone a hospital emergency room crying that a child has swallowed poison are told to make the youngster vomit if possible (by tickling the throat with a spoon handle). Then they should take the child and a sample of the poison (the vomitus will...
...manual nature of much ROTC study, the approach which had seemed most feasible was to concentrate on the fundamentals of army training and cut the credit to one-half. Under Dupuy's plan, however, the drudge work of the ROTC is banished entirely from the College. Instead the chores and rote memory work are limited to an elongated summer camp, twelve weeks instead of the current...
...skeptics who doubt that any course connected with the military could be worthwhile, Dupuy's report outlines a thoughtful program. Though it is easiest to stick to discussing the manual of arms in class, the new plan would offer instead courses in Military History and the Psychology of Leadership. Since the history and psychology departments and even the law school have pledged support, there's strong promise that the ROTC could at last lift itself academically. Since the course will be open to the entire College at full credit, a test of the program's success will be the number...
...additional six weeks of camp, the cadet would learn the manual of arms, foot drill, map reading, command experience, and similar subjects...
...lost his job, his money and most of his belongings. Gaunt and hungry, Nordhoff scraped along for two years on handouts from friends; because he had been a top executive, he was forbidden to work in the U.S. zone at anything except manual labor-and even such jobs were not to be had. But the British asked him to boss Volkswagen in their zone...