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...servicemen in Viet Nam, who are doing a tremendous...
Integration has marched so fast since then that military posts today are the most integrated communities in the U.S. Negro and white servicemen send their children to the same schools, play golf and swim in the same recreation areas. There still are few Negro officers-less than one-half of 1% in the Navy and Marine Corps, for example-but the Defense Department since 1962 has made a determined effort to find capable Negro leadership among the ranks, has actively recruited talented Negro youths for the service academies and college officer-training programs. As a result, the entering classes...
...servicemen overseas, stores have been doing a brisk business in gifts ranging from toilet kits to packages of fruit, cheese and nuts. Detroit's Hudson's has been advertising a $9.95 "fun kit" for use at the rest-and-recreation areas that contains a case of poker chips, checkers, cards, dice, two empty 12-oz. flasks, a drink mixer, two jiggers, a bottle opener and a score pad. The U.S. Post Office no longer guarantees parcel post delivery by Christmas Day but a present airmailed before Dec. 10 should still reach Viet Nam with Donder and Blitzen...
...Seoul's City Hall Plaza, the President was revivified by the sight of people massed as far as he could see. "To an American," he declared, "the free soil of Korea is hallowed ground." Lunching with American servicemen just 15 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone the next day, he lauded them in grisly language as "the boys that are willing to go and die and leave their arms and legs and their eyes all over the world. Except for you and your brothers who came here ahead of you, Korea would now be under the master...
...Congress finally, after a four-year-delay, passed a private bill to give $25,000 each to the relatives of 35 servicemen, mostly members of the U.S. Navy band, killed in a mid-air collision over Rio de Janeiro...