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...customary head shaving, they are given a choice of three suggested hair styles. Nor must they tolerate the name-calling and physical threats that have characterized basic training till now. Along with their green fatigues, recruits are issued laminated plastic "merit cards" on which their instructors can punch up to 50 points a week and 80 during the final week of basic to reward them for their performance in inspections, physical-fitness tests, marksmanship and other military skills. The points can be cashed in for privileges; 30 points win a trainee a weekend movie, 80 a Sunday off post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Welcome to the Army, Mr. Jones | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...Suds and Punch. At random, Chien split his subjects into four groups of ten each. Three groups spent an hour each weekday afternoon for nine weeks in the makeshift tavern. The members of one group were given 12 ounces of beer each; those of the second, a glass of nonalcoholic fruit punch; the third, fruit punch containing a dose of thioridazine, a psychotropic (mind-affecting) drug for the treatment of senility. Members of the fourth group, which was established as a control, stayed in the ward and got their usual dose of thioridazine straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Beer for the Aged | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...with the social atmosphere of the pub and the salutary effect of simply being allowed to drink. Over the course of the experiment, the beer group mingled most companionably in the pub's easy ambience and rarely left before their allotted hour was up. Where 21.3% of the punch drinkers either departed early or failed to show up at all, only 5% of the beer drinkers did. Moreover, not one of them refused his daily glass, while punch drinkers did so 22% of the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Beer for the Aged | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

Experimental Workshop in Group Dance Improvisation: To plan for improvised dancing at Yard Punch, Dance experience not necessary. For more information call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs: Woman Named Muslim Culture Professor | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...offense is likely to have more punch- certainly not less. A pro-type offense seems to be in the making, though it remains to be seen if Yovicsin has a passer at his disposal. He came to Harvard with a reputation for strong passing teams, but Ric Zimmerman has been the only quarterback here to provide the Crimson with an air attack...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Yovicsin Years: Good, Better, Worst | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

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