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...serious hour in our nation's history." said Kennedy, "when we are confronted with grave crises in Berlin and Southeast Asia, when we are devoting our energies to economic recovery and stability, when we are asking reservists to leave their homes and families for months on end and servicemen to risk their lives-and four were killed in the last two days in Viet Nam-and asking union members to hold down their wage increases, at a time when restraint and sacrifice are being asked of every citizen, the American people will find it hard...
...Horizontal Lieutenant. Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss add up to 12 ft. 1¼ in. of fun in a tall story about 4,000 chuckleheaded U.S. servicemen locked in unequal struggle with a superior enemy: one sneaky Japanese soldier...
...prolonged separation is a bigger service problem than it once was, since about 85% of all officers and 40% of enlisted men now are married. Instead of the carefree, hard-living G.I.s of old, whose greatest peacetime conquests often occurred in bars and bordellos, today's settled-down servicemen average 2.8 dependents each. When the travel ban was ordered, 320,000 dependents were already in Europe, and thus were not affected; they still receive Government housing or allowances. Since the order, 56,000 servicemen sent abroad have been separated from their families; another 19,000 somehow found the money...
...gaining in popularity. Hip guys, or firmennye (literally, foreign firms), go for white shirts and solid ties from France; but hard-to-get button-down shirts and striped ties from the U.S. Ivy League are the most. Bell-bottom trousers, longtime mark of Soviet orthodoxy, are worn only by servicemen, hayseeds, and Nikita Khrushchev...
...island." Lieutenant Hutton is told when he arrives, "isn't much, but you'll learn to hate it.'' He does. There are 4,000 servicemen in residence and 18 white women. What's more, the 4,000 servicemen have nothing to do but chase one little old Japanese soldier who still holds out in the hills and at night sneaks past the U.S. sentries to pilfer the colonel's private stock of gefilte fish. After a year of this, the servicemen are so desperate for something to do that they start teaching...