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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which for an enlisted man might go from the present $2,900 a year to as much as $7,300-turn Americans into mercenaries? Said Nixon: "We're talking about the same kind of citizen armed force America has had ever since it began, excepting only in the period when we have relied on the draft." The Pentagon itself rejects the Wehrmacht-type army, in which men spend all their professional lives in service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE CASE FOR A VOLUNTEER ARMY | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...outright Stalinists from the Novotný regime; instead, they prefer respectable, obedient bureaucrats. In Prague's current political argot, these men are called "the realists." The new federal Premier, for example, is Oldřich Černík, who was also Premier during the Dubček period but has since shown his willingness to cooperate with the Soviet occupiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Shifting Symbols | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

Rowe has already volunteered to return to Viet Nam, where, he feels, his intimate knowledge of the Viet Cong should be put to use. To him, he explained, the enemy is no longer "a faceless mass, a group of screaming individuals. Having watched them over an extended period of time, I will be able to think ahead to interpret their actions, in many cases to foresee a lot of things which they might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Life with Charlie | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

Bridge at Rehearsals. Occasionally, the group could also have fun together. Alexander would cut up a pinup photo, insert the tantalizing slices between the pages of his colleagues' music, then watch for the reaction when the others discovered the picture halfway through a concert. During a two-year period just before World War II, the men showed up every day for rehearsal, but never practiced a note. Kroyt's daughter accidentally discovered why and reported back to her mother: "Momma, they're playing bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chamber Music: Farewell to the Budapest | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...Budapest Quartet probably hit an interpretive peak in the late 1930s and early '40s. Nothing reflected that better than its way with the mysterious, deeply spiritual last quartets of Beethoven. The ensemble's recordings of that period captured their particularly expansive style, in which they seemed to move as much above the music as with it. Although they lost some of their ease and sparkle in later years, they never sank below a remarkably high level of interpretive excellence. Even on an off night, they played with exactitude of tempo and emotional involvement that few other ensembles could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chamber Music: Farewell to the Budapest | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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