Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known in his civilian days as Crooner Vic Damone, was home again to tackle an assignment right down his alley. Following official orders, Vic dropped into a Manhattan recording studio, cut a platter called The Girls Are Marching, a rousing new number which the Defense Department hopes will help recruit 80,00 women...
...increasing concern with words like "balance," the national college," and the "scholar-athlete" indicates the importance of the admissions problem, which since the war, has resolved itself into an earnest nationwide rivalry to recruit the country's most outstanding students An especially keen competition has developed between Princeton, Yale Dartmouth, and Harvard all of which are seeking the elusive scholar-athlete is evidenced by certain facts: Yale drew a record number of applicants Spring. Princeton's Committee on admissions found its selection task "the most difficult in history": Dartmouth officials chose 760 men from an unprecedented number of 3.511 applicants...
...recruit, train and oversee EDF, there would be a Council of Ministers, a nine-man Commissariat, a Court of Justice and an Assembly. The Syman assembly embodied the highest hopes of Pan-European dreams: it would evolve, said the treaty, into a responsible European congress with jurisdiction over the Schuman Plan, EDC and, if all went well, a United States of Europe...
...chief partners: France and Germany. It is at French insistence that the West imposes nettlesome restrictions on German sovereignty. Theoretically because West Germany is a "strategically exposed area," chiefly because of French fears, the Germans are forbidden to manufacture atomic, biological and chemical weapons. They would be allowed to recruit an 85,000-man air force, but not to make airplanes. They may build guided missiles-but only for short-range use: the British, remembering what Hitler's V-2s did to London, vetoed long-range rockets...
German Allies. The airlift, Korea, and the arrival of 2,500 Iron Curtain refugees brought the cold war to Pforzheim. From on high came a new occupation policy: recruit the Germans as allies. "Our so-called war criminals must be released before we can join the West," objected an ex-Wehrmacht colonel. Lascoe got U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy to come down to Pforzheim to talk to the town's leaders at an informal buffet supper (one dish: corn on the cob). They still had misgivings...