Word: marshaller
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Howard Zinn, professor of Government at Boston University, and Harvard graduate student Margaret Marshal chaired the rally which was called by a coalition of strike committees from throughout the Boston area...
...Malcolm Marshal '41 and Franklin N. Cunningham '41 polled more than 1500 ROTC graduates from the classes of 1923 to 1965. Cunningham said the response was "almost universally favorable...
...immense influence has been greatly enhanced by the threat of war with China and the Czechoslovak invasion. The importance of the military was only underscored when Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev flew to Minsk recently for the massive Dvina maneuvers, and stood on the reviewing stand alongside Defense Minister Marshal Andrei Grechko, 66. The unmistakable message for Soviet televiewers was that all was harmonious between the chiefs of the Communist Party and the military establishment...
...special cadet schools for all services, where the sons of officers are trained to take their place in the military elite. Officers are paid about 25% more than civilians of similar age and skill. A senior lieutenant earns 140 rubles ($155) a month, a colonel 500 rubles, a marshal 2,000. Along with the money goes the right to shop in special military stores; some generals and marshals and their wives are also entitled to use the exclusive Section 200 in Moscow's GUM department store, which is reserved for top party and government officials...
...club and special park with basketball and tennis courts and boating facilities. Throughout the country, the military maintains special hunting lodges, ski resorts and summer vacation houses. The rigid strictures against drinking do not apply to officers. One marveling U.S. officer remembers a dinner in East Germany during which Marshal Grechko's first deputy, Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, drank 18 successive vodka toasts...