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...serviceman now spends 50% to 80% of his time in schools, says a report issued last week by Columbia University's Teachers College. The military has 300,000 students in schools all over the world, from Arctic huts to the National War College. In the U.S. alone are 300 military schools teaching 4,000 courses, from the three-R level to the Ph.D. Even the raw recruit now spends a third of his time in a classroom; the general gets the equivalent of two or three years of graduate study. To keep everyone learning off-duty as well...
...implication was that if President Kennedy had been shielded or thrown to safety on the floor of the car in the 5-sec. interval between the two shots, he might have survived. A Secret Serviceman, trained to react quickly in such emergencies, might have done just that had he been stationed close enough to Kennedy. One agent rode in the front seat of Kennedy's car in Dallas, but there was no way for him to scramble back to the President's aid in time. Kennedy himself had always objected to agents flanking him closely (particularly when campaigning...
...shall employ all means to right this gross mistake or injustice to a bona-fide U.S. citizen and ex-serviceman." Connally turned over the correspondence to his successor, Fred Korth, and Oswald's demands went no farther...
Inevitably, because blood is a whole pharmacopoeia in itself, the hematologists had a field day. Dr. Leon N. Sussman of Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital pointed out that besides the familiar ABO and Rh factors noted on every serviceman's dog tag and blood donor's identity card, there are no fewer than 15 other "public"* factors widely distributed in human blood. By computing all the possible combinations of these, Dr. Sussman arrived at the startling figure of 57.6 million different kinds of people distinguishable by telltale proteins in their blood. Because there undoubtedly are still other...
...Those Pills." During World War II, "Atabrine discipline" was difficult to enforce because the antimalaria drug made many a serviceman's skin turn yellow. Today's malaria preventives have no such drawback. But medical officers in all the armed forces still have to fight against ignorance and superstition. It takes only one oddball muttering "Those pills will make you sterile, buddy," and rumor buzzes around the base. Great quantities of medicine get flushed down the toilets. Penicillin was whispered to impair potency. Recruits who were supposed to take it daily as a preventive against rheumatic fever often spat...