Word: servicemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rising Gloom. With 60% of the nation's commercial air transport grounded, problems of all kinds continued to grow. In California, servicemen returning from Viet Nam on combat leave found themselves stranded for up to 72 hours at Travis Air Force Base. As many as 100 at a time curled up to sleep on sofas or in makeshift barracks while they waited for hitchhikes aboard military planes passing through the base. Mail deliveries that normally move by air were slowed; shipments of everything from electronic equipment to exotic flowers were delayed for lack of air cargo space. Businessmen hitched...
...Letter Writer Buckner [July 1] is a naive fellow. Certainly we are not fighting solely "so college kids can go to school," but that reason would rate somewhere on the list if servicemen made lists of such things. We are fighting, yes, because we have to, for the same reasons our fathers had to. We are fighting because our Commander in Chief believes that we are the best instrument for carrying out national policy...
...heaped up confusion and distress, humor and heartbreak, unevenly. New York lost an estimated $500,000 a day in tourist trade, retail sales and entertainment spending, while in Chicago, 50,000 conventiongoers jammed hotel space. Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard pilots airlifted some 4,000 strike-stranded servicemen to their destinations, including 1,500 en route to or from Viet Nam. Yet some commercial flights went out as much as a quarter empty because overloaded phone lines deluded would-be passengers into thinking a trip to the airport would be useless...
...named him president and executive director of her tax-exempt Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which since 1964 has raised $155,000 to help care for about 1,000 of the hundreds of thousands of rejected, mixed-blooded "Amerasian" youths who since 1945 have been fathered by American servicemen from Korea to Viet Nam. Mrs. Buck and Harris swung across the U.S. last year on a fund-raising tour that actually turned into one long interview-with the aide asking the questions and the author chattering away about China, love, art, the foundation, and inexhaustibly about herself. The result...
What Is Innocent? "I am aware," says Dr. Beecher, a crusading professor of research in anesthesia, "that these are troubling charges. They have grown out of troubling practices." Other medical investigators, while agreeing with his basic tenets, are equally troubled by the way he used his data. The servicemen who did not get penicillin for strep throats, for example, were at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. When Western Reserve University's Dr. Charles H. Rammelkamp Jr. began studying them in early 1949, no one knew whether penicillin was indeed the indispensable or even the best treatment...