Word: recruited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basic training remains rigorous. "For the first four months I thought I had died and gone to hell," says a Scandinavian recruit. "The legion was intent on breaking me down until I could neither think nor move until somebody ordered me to." Officers think nothing of ordering a legionnaire to run-not march-through 35 miles of mountain country, and then having the man practice parachute drops the next morning...
...trauma for colleges, the drive to recruit is proving a boon for high school seniors. The State University of New York at Stony Brook, considered a selective school, must accept 5,000 applicants to fill a class of 1,500-a "yield" rate, as educators call it, of only 30%. The ratio between those accepted and those who enroll varies widely. Harvard boasts one of the highest yields, but it is only 74%, which means that four acceptances must be sent out for every three spaces in the freshman class. Also in the high-yield range: Yale, 69%; San Jose...
...community of 60,000 that slipped into decline when its coal mines gave out, West Germany's Schott Optical Glass company opened a manufacturing plant in 1969 with 60 employees. It now has 600. Reports TIME Correspondent Gisela Bolte: "City fathers have hired a consultant in Switzerland to recruit other foreign companies. A Swiss firm that has developed a friction reducing process for machinery will soon open in Pittston. To make the community even more attractive, the local airport runway will soon be extended to accommodate jumbo jets. In addition, a 42-acre industrial park has been declared...
Igor told the Americans that he could possibly get a higher post within the KGB. He said he would have a better chance of this if he could recruit Shadrin as a Soviet agent. U.S. intelligence officials, though suspicious, decided to help. Thus, even before the KGB got in touch with Shadrin, he had been persuaded by U.S. officials to become a double agent, despite considerable misgivings on his part...
Instructors are having some special problems. Observes a training officer at Great Lakes: "The reading level of our recruits is often below third grade. That means the sailor can't even read a warning sign on a ship's boiler room." One reason for low levels: creation of the all-volunteer military has removed the threat of being drafted into the Army, which was for years an incentive for youths to join the Navy. This means a growing number of the Navy's recruits are young men seeking cheap vocational training or an escape from some social...