Word: noncoms
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...drive is on to make every officer a college graduate (about 65% are) and every noncom a high school graduate (about 73% of all enlisted men are). While they sit 80 ft. underground, in ICBM launching capsules, Air Force officers now spend most of their time studying for master's degrees. Katzenbach has stirred the Joint Chiefs of Staff to such interest that now "a big, fat committee" is hard at work relating education to overall strategy...
...noncom in the Marine Corps, Beckwith was a machine gunner in the invasions of Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Wounded in the chest before reaching the beach at Tarawa, he saved himself by swimming half a mile to a reef. He married a Navy WAVE, Mary Louise Williams, a descendant of Rhode Island's Founding Father Roger Williams...
...also a strong supporter of pan-Arabism, is even seen by some as a potential rival of his onetime benefactor, Nasser. Ben Bella, in his speeches, chants: "We are Arabs, we are Arabs, we are Arabs." His supporters claim that the ex-country boy, the ex-terrorist, the ex-noncom, the ex-prisoner is most interested in helping Algeria's fellahin. Just how to do it, Ben Bella has obviously not yet figured...
France's De Gaulle sent a delegation headed by his trusted Algerian Affairs Minister, Louis Joxe. The F.L.N. delegation was headed by Vice Premier Belkacem Krim, a former French army noncom. As the delegates met in Evian's cream-colored Hotel du Pare, they had only to look out the window for evidence that Salan's S.A.O.* was still desperately trying to sabotage peace. French security forces prowled the town, armed motorboats guarded the water approaches over Lake Geneva, army halftracks along the esplanade pointed the snouts of antiaircraft guns skyward. In Paris, the S.A.O. struck massively...
...Level. Melbourne High spurns "life adjustment" courses for its 1,500 students. It has no social studies. "They only weaken history and geography," says Brown. The school assembly is a noncom-pulsory, after-hours activity. Melbourne makes profitable use of team teaching, follows the bold "Trump Plan" schedule of large lecture classes 20% of the time, with the rest divided between seminars and individual research. Students even buy many textbooks because "state-provided textbooks are not adequate...