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...preserve the remnants of Western learning during the Dark Ages, so the Marines at the Eighth and I Street barracks, an imposing brick quadrangle in the midst of the city's black ghetto, insist on maintaining the values that were the U.S. military's before it went mod. Here the emphasis, indeed the very raison d'être, is the preservation of spit-and-polish discipline. Let the other services allow beer in the barracks or sideburns in the field. Not the Marines, where tough tradition continues to be served. Since 1957, the spring and summer parades...
JOHN MILLER, 24, a lanky, mod San Franciscan who sports candy-striped bell-bottoms on the links, began hitting balls into a driving net in his garage at the age of five. This season he belted his way to a second-place finish in the Masters and third in the Jacksonville Open; currently, he is among the top 20 money winners, with 1971 earnings, so far, of $55,849. An elder in the Mormon Church, he attended Brigham Young University but quit before graduating to join the tour in 1969. "A college degree," he explains, "is not going to help...
...raise huge herds of Santa Gertrudi cattle. But these are mostly the Australians of myth, slightly larger than life. The faces of modern Australia still include the prospector and the cattleman, but they also include the mine worker, the land developer, the labor leader and the successful young mod designer. Actually, the average Australian is not now-and never was-the remote man of the outback, "the son of field and flock ...from bold and roving stock," as Poet "Banjo" Patterson described the pioneer. He is a suburbanite, and his country is one of the most urbanized nations on earth...
...young Americans flee the country or go to jail rather than face induction, coaxing today's youth to volunteer for military service is almost like asking Army Chief of Staff General William Westmoreland to join the Weatherman. Yet such is the Army's faith in its new mod style that it has launched a 13-week, $10.6 million radio and television campaign -one of the most expensive ever conducted by a federal agency-to sell the idea of enlisting...
...them to use. Most of the pilots cannot afford to buy a plane, and renting them is not always easy. Outside of Lease-A-Plane, the aircraft-rental field is a crazy quilt of widely varying rates, generally casual maintenance and erratic availability of aircraft. Says Johnson, a moderately mod dresser who has the jut-jawed good looks favored in old Smilin' Jack cartoons: "We had to get away from the image of the guy in the leather jacket sitting around a potbelly stove at the airport. We wanted to streamline and standardize our operations so that the businessmen...