Word: rear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Building Belief. Depression is most likely to afflict the wives of servicemen if they think that their husband's absence is pointless. Navy Rear Admiral John M. Alford, a personnel expert who conducted a recent one-year survey of Navy life, says that when the tone of a husband's letters about his work changes from eagerness to boredom, wives swing from resolution to discouragement. So far, no systematic study has been made on the effects of wifely missives. New Haven Psychiatrist Houston Macintosh found that the spouses of Air Force men, virtually all of whom volunteer...
...movie theater, reviewed the already prepared top-secret folders and quickly made the decision on which troops to start pulling out of Viet Nam. The two 9th Infantry brigades and the Marine regimental combat team include roughly 17,000 men. They will be joined by about another 8,000 rear-echelon and naval personnel. The total number of American servicemen in the country will go down by less that 5%?but U.S. ground combat strength will be reduced by nearly...
Died. General Sir Miles Dempsey, 72, British infantry officer who commanded the rear guard at Dunkirk, and led the British Second Army when it stormed Normandy's Gold, Juno and Sword beaches in 1944 but later passed up offers of higher command and resigned because "I have spent too much of my life smashing things up"; in Yattendon, England, precisely 25 years after Dday...
...study by the Zurich company showed that women are less costly to insure than men. While the women have more accidents per mile, their smashups are less serious and 20% less costly to settle. Women tend to clobber fence posts and rear bumpers; men often hit other cars head-on and at higher speeds. A separate survey by the World Health Organization made similar findings. Says Robert Pansard, a French safety official who participated in the WHO study: "Although women are perhaps more emotional, they do not possess the drive for power which often becomes aggressiveness in male drivers." They...
...subjects stopped him at a distance of three feet, and showed markedly increasing tension and hostility as the circle shrank. The nonviolent subjects let him approach to half that distance. Moreover, the two areas of insulating space differed radically in shape. That of the violent prisoners bulged to the rear-an avenue of approach that they regarded as unusually menacing. The nonviolent subjects' personal zones were nearly cylindrical...