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Adek Apfelbaum, a spokesman for PMC in Great Neck, New York, refused to comment yesterday on PCM's Essex County contract, but said he did not know of the commissioners' vote to cancel the contract...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Essex County D.A. Begins PCM Inquiry | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

Harris served six uneventful months on active duty and then retired to the reserves as a specialist in military government. He returned to Nether Providence and went to work as an admissions officer at PMC and in his spare time moved smoothly into the Republican machine as a committeeman...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: The Machine: Rolling Jobs Into Votes | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

Harris, who had only recently come to SEPTA, was disappointed: "I left the college not because I wanted to - I was starving to death. PMC is constantly on the edge of bankruptcy. This opportunity came along and I took it because I knew it was something I would enjoy. When the boss told me it wasn't a good idea I couldn't really argue...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: The Machine: Rolling Jobs Into Votes | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

...troubles of the military college are best illustrated by PMC Colleges in Chester, Pa. Started as a boys' school in 1821 and known as Pennsylvania Military College for 73 years, the school was skidding toward bankruptcy before it opened a coed night division in 1954, accepted full-time nonmilitary students in 1958, finally added an all-civilian branch, called Penn Morton College, in 1966. The trustees fought for two years over what to name the combination, finally agreed on PMC to please those alumni who wanted some suggestion of a military designation. Although cadet applications have been dropping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: De-Escalation on the Campus | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

Potted to Pot. The PMC cadets still rise to reveille at 0700, freeze to attention any time an upperclassman barges into their room. They live in fear of humorless student commanders, who rule their daily lives. This month two cadets were expelled and one suspended when the cadet brigade commander learned that they had returned to campus after a drinking spree and sprayed each other with a fire extinguisher-a prank that would have drawn little more than tolerant laughs at most other schools. Even so, PMC has turned soft, complains Senior Cadet James W. McConnell, president of the student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: De-Escalation on the Campus | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

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