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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last: danger, excitement and mud." On a working vacation last July, Sider took a flying leap into another Army experience: paratrooper training at the Fort Benning Airborne School. Says he: "I was terrified that this 46-year-old geriatric case would collapse on a two-mile run and never get up, so every night I dosed myself with aspirin and liniment. In the end, I had massive shin splints and my paratrooper wings, of which I am inordinately and shamelessly proud...
...most controversial questions in the defense budget debate. Yet even now, a surprising 600 of every Pentagon dollar goes for personnel costs. The Soviets, by contrast, devote less than 30% of their defense outlays to personnel. How the Kremlin does this is no secret. Because the U.S.S.R. never abolished conscription, 75% of all Soviet males are drafted. (The rest are deferred for the familiar reasons...
...funny but I never thought of myself as living in a mill village, though I suppose I did. The houses all around us were millhouses. My husband says that in some towns, mill people were called 'cotton-mill trash.' Well, I guess maybe they were here too, but as far as we were concerned, we didn't ever hear...
...GIVE THEM. For even those actors who never sinned on the stage before don't stand a chance with this cardboard American morality play, Dark of the Moon. Not a chance, "I reckon" (to quote the pet phrase of the playwrights) with all the "fers, plumbs and cottonwood-blooming times" and a script that should burn in the fires of hell. And while they wallow in this sty of Appalachia, adultery and brimstone (and anything else moral that you happen to think of), do not spurn them for their transgressions, for the performance was near as good what mortals might...
Carter pulled the same trick in '76, cynically taking the support of the left for granted while he made overtures to the right. Will the left never learn? The only choice is no choice. Had the left pulled out of the '76 electoral fights and accepted that Jimmy Carter Republicanism is not significantly different from Jerry Ford Republicanism, it would be in a much stronger position this time around...