Word: men
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEMILITARIZED ZONE: Far to the North, near the 17th parallel, there is concern as well. By Dec. 15, the 18,500 men of the U.S. 3rd Marine Division will have been withdrawn, leaving the gap to be filled by ARVN's 1st Division. The U.S. Commander in Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams, calls the 1st the equal of any American division in the country. In line with its slogan, "More sweat in training, less blood in combat," it gives each trooper an extra five weeks of special training, and its combat record is excellent. Though it is twice...
Price Police. In the wake of his 121% devaluation of the franc, Pompidou launched an austerity program that featured a freeze on most prices. Despite the efforts of the Finance Ministry's "price police" - an army of footsore men in serge suits who carry large account books and check prices in thousands of shops - France's legion of small shop keepers almost immediately began pushing prices up. In Paris, roughly 1 in every 10 shopkeepers broke the line and marked up prices an average of 5%. Last week the workers, reacting to the austerity program, were staying home...
With the country supposedly quiet, the Washington Post could turn the attention of its editorial page to matters of less moment. Or so it thought. After it ran an editorial supporting the anti-bra movement among women and even suggesting that "men blatantly exploit women as consumers" by foisting off such an unnecessary item of apparel, the Post got a chiding letter from an unexpected source. Wrote Elder Statesman Dean Acheson: "What traitor or fifth columnist on your staff embittered the war between the sexes by blaming men for the bra? Even as a boy looking at pictures of Boadicea...
...private campuses of the East have formally surrendered to coeducation. This fall Princeton has 151 girls, 101 of them freshmen and the rest transfer students from other colleges. Yale has accepted 588 women, including 230 freshmen. Vassar College boasts 91 new male undergraduates. Bennington College has taken in 33 men...
...addition, under the new Eleven-College Exchange Program, six Eastern men's colleges and five girls' colleges are swapping more than 200 students this year. While 59 girls attend Williams College, 28 Williams men have switched to the girls' schools. Smith has gained 28 men from Amherst, Dartmouth, Trinity, Wesleyan and Williams, but lost 73 of its regular students to men's colleges. A third of the Smithies are bound for Dartmouth, where they are being joined by 15 girls from Mount Holyoke, seven from Wheaton and three from Connecticut College...