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This trend was noted by Master Sergeant Frank J. Carr at the Army recruiting station which handles Metropolitan Boston enlistments. The station's monthly quota has remained steady at about 60; in July, the actual total was 69, in August 79, in September 77, and though October is not yet half over, the total has already reached 77. Perhaps lured by lavishly printed four-color booklets, which note that the Army "guarantees in writing your choice of training BEFORE enlistment," would-be enlistees have been applying at the rate of four for every opening. By far the two most popular...
Today, with Trujillo gone, Balaguer is left to hold the restless country together -at least until the promised free elections next May. A strong man would find the task difficult. Cut off from much of its normal hemisphere trade and the normal bonus on U.S. sugar-quota sales, the economy is in near collapse. Politically, the tensions grow more dangerous each week as the long-throttled opposition rises to take advantage of the new "democratization" of Balaguer violently resisted by the dead dictator's henchmen. Of little help is Ramfis Trujillo Jr., who commands the military and professes support...
...schools of war writing. He explains why things worked rather than why they did not. His target is the "armed corporation" that has crossed the ocean to send U.S. steel flying at the enemy, bringing shiploads of filing cabinets and efficiency experts whose battle cries are phrases like "production quota" and "good management...
...lower level psychology course, which was limited to 150 last year, had prepared for 400 students. Within half an hour after the doors of Mem Hall opened, the quota had been filled...
Apparently the biggest losers in the scramble were the Cliffies. Although Dr. Ashner said that "the boys were pretty gentlemanly in the lines," the enterprising females failed to fill their "ideal quota" of 25 per cent of the class...