Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...today's all-volunteer Army, the fringe benefits can be very sweet-but apparently not sweet enough for some noncommissioned officers, who have added to their "bennies" by shaking down recruits. Such abuses are gradually being exposed at five of the eight Army bases that are home to basic trainees. Typically in such cases, a recruit was given a weekend pass, allowed to get away with some minor infraction, or awarded a passing grade on a test. In exchange, he had to pay cash to his drill instructor or some other noncom, or perform a service such as washing...
...ratted on the Redgraves? It turned out to be W.R.P. Recruit No. 5005, better known to British TV and stage audiences as Irene Gorst, 28, a rising comedienne. The cops descended on the Red House soon after Gorst went to the London Observer with a tale about an "ordeal" she had suffered there at the hands of the Redgraves and their comrades. As she told it, she arrived late for the beginning of her two-week course at the Red House because an old beau had whisked her off to Maidenhead for lunch. This infraction of party discipline outraged...
hile living in Cincinnati, Grathwohl was recruited after a chance meeting with two Weatherpeople. He was just the type of person that the organization, which was overloaded with upper middle class members, wanted to recruit. His background was working class, and the recruiters wrongly believed that he had become a munitions expert during four years in the Army...
...Street, only a few blocks from the capitol grounds, where last week's attempt on President Ford's life took place. Prison authorities refused their dozen requests to visit Manson. Bugliosi has called her the "chief cheerleader of the Manson cause." Indeed, she has continued trying to recruit new members, but without apparent success. She has also attempted−usually in vain−to keep members from deserting the group...
...just a few years ago as women's colleges rushed to open their gates to men. The nationwide push for coeducation in the early '70s brought hard times to women's schools that chose to exclude men. Enrollment tumbled, alumnae panicked and school officials scrambled to recruit new students. Now, however, the picture is changing dramatically. All-women's colleges will open this fall with their highest enrollment in four years...