Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army chief of staff, General Abdul Haris Nasution, 41. Though Nasution has consistently supported Sukarno, one of the league's charter parties is the Indonesian Independence Upholders Union, formed several years ago by Gen eral Nasution himself. Significantly, military commanders in most areas have allowed the league to recruit members and hold meetings...
...four-year scholarships (average cost: $1,000 a year) for the ablest youngsters O.C.U. can find. Score card to date: 21 scholarships, awarded to high school seniors throughout Oklahoma and Texas. Casting a bit of sarcasm at Oklahoma U.. Oilman McGee said: "We aim to recruit bright students just like Bud Wilkinson recruits that football team...
...under the jurisdiction of Detroit's prosperous United Foundation, but Father Kern is dead set against it. "It would take away our charm," he explains with a smile. "We've got some pride, too. People help us down here because they want to-we don't recruit. The benefits of giving are somehow lost when it's mechanically deducted...
Preventive Medicine. In Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, when a police recruit was asked, during a first aid test, "How would you arrest a hemorrhage?" he answered: "I would put my hand on his shoulder and warn and caution...
...Like Centipedes." A volunteer shopped for a regiment in those gentlemanly days. Indeed, a man of means could recruit his own in a saloon and make himself colonel. Private Post picked the 71st Infantry, a regiment heavily manned with flask-toting, city-bred New Yorkers. No one needed to be caught alive or dead in olive drab; the uniform was a brilliant cerulean blue with a flashy stripe down the trouser leg. The training grounds were the fields of Hempstead, Long Island. The close-order drill came from Gettysburg and Waterloo, and the chow seemed almost as old. Writes Post...