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Corps of Integrity. The military academy expects its students to pick up most of their specialized military and technical knowledge in summer training and after they leave the Point-and 60% of them eventually do go on to civilian graduate schools at Army expense. Today, technical instruction at the Point emphasizes such versatile new tools as the computer. Every cadet must take at least 40 hours of basic instruction in the use of the Point's three GE 225 computers...
...founded by Methodist clergymen in the late 19th century as "a moral seaside resort which must be run in the interests of our holy Christianity." Ocean City still bans alcoholic beverages ("We cannot pander to vile appetites or propensities"), but just two miles across the causeway is Somers Point-and it has 18 bars. After sunning all day at Ocean City and partying all night at Somers Point, the conclusion is frequently sexual. Says Ann Williams, a 23-year-old medical technician: "The kids think nothing of living together...
Four days later, Johnson was more to the point-and considerably more helpful to dubious Americans-when he summoned reporters into his White House office and calmly explained his views of the civil unrest in South Viet Nam. "They are trying to build a nation," he said. "They have to do this in the teeth of Communist efforts to take the country over by force. It is a hard and frustrating job, and there is no easy answer-no instant solution-to any of the problems they face. Our wish is to see them increasingly able to manage their...
Thayer put his finger on the crucial point-and the paradox of the current Guild strike. A union that was originally founded by and for writers, the essential word men of journalism, was striking primarily over the problems of automation-something that is likely to affect remarkably few writers in the foreseeable future...
SOME publications make a special point-and package-of their predictions. TIME never has done so, because, like most journalists, we know that a measure of prophecy simply must be part of our daily and weekly business. Much of our effort is devoted to finding out what happened and making it clear; but, inevitably, we must also face the question of what will happen next. We do so by the stories we select, the details we emphasize, the speculation we report, the directions in which we point, as well as by outright forecast. Everyone on our staff recalls...