Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sporadic student in Fort Worth high schools, he quit at 17 to join the Marine Corps. A marine who served with him at El Toro Air Station in California remembers him as "a lonely, introverted, aloof boy." Oswald, he recalls, "always said he hated the outfit," was bitter about "the tough time his mother had during the Depression." In boot camp, Oswald qualified as a "sharpshooter," on the rifle range, trained as an electronics-equipment operator...
Back in Fort Worth, Oswald still headed down the dead-end street, allied himself with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a New York-headquartered pro-Castro outfit that holds a prominent place on the Communist front organization lists of both the State Department and the Department of Justice. In an erratic bit of derring-do, Oswald went to New Orleans last July. There he tried to infiltrate the Cuban Revolutionary Student Directorate, a militant crew of anti-Castro raiders, by offering his Marine experience to teach military tactics to members. Directorate leaders were leary of Oswald-and they were...
...took up odd jobs. But Johnson soon returned, borrowed $75 to get started at Southwest Texas State Teachers College. In 1932 he went to Washington as a congressional secretary, reorganized a group of Capitol Hill staffers who called themselves "The Little Congress," got himself elected "speaker," and turned the outfit into a hotbed of New Deal ideology...
Merchants are not the only stamp handlers. Some 3,000 companies now use stamps as employee-incentive awards. Crush International Ltd., a soft-drink outfit, gave 1,000,000 stamps to the winner of a sales contest. Electric Storage Battery gives ten stamps for each dollar it saves as the result of an employee's suggestion; it received 589 suggestions in three months, and passes out 3,000,000 stamps a year. A patent-medicine producer called Isodine is surveying the frequency of colds among factory workers by sending 200 stamps a week to plant nurses who report...
...force is a slick, tough outfit with 92,000 men and the latest type of fighter-bombers. Like the army, it is geared tightly to NATO plans. While France's Charles de Gaulle stub bornly impedes cooperation and while the British ponder their own role, West Germany enthusiastically cooperates with U.S. military planning. Symbol of this close relationship is the cluster of five military agreements signed in August, which envisions a German-American tank for the 1970s, joint development of missile cruisers and jet helicopters, plus an ambitious combined research project on new weapons...