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There have already been many abuses of the plan. The age limit is difficult to enforce, particularly for women passengers, and students have bought tickets for their parents. Also, when groups of servicemen deal collectively with the airlines, it has been difficult to ascertain who is within the age limit and who exceeds...
...entire school-aid package was sugar-coated by two provisions dear to most Congressmen: extension of the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act; extension of federal aid to school districts that have large numbers of children of federal employees, including servicemen. With this bill at the ready, White House Aide Larry O'Brien snapped: "Let's have this damn thing out right here...
...morale of the R.A.F. was said to rise and fall with her skirts. Minor victories from the Mediterranean to Malaya were attributed to the fact that Jane was unblushingly bare on a particular morning. After the war Jane continued to cavort across the pages of the Mirror, delighting demobbed servicemen who found that she looked as luscious at a suburban breakfast table as she had in an army mess hall...
Beginning with insulin for diabetes (1922), the benefits from an encounter with the doctor have grown at an ever faster pace. The microbe-killing sulfas came along in time to be dusted into the wounds of hundreds of thousands of servicemen in World War II-and were in turn pushed aside by antibiotics such as penicillin (1945) and tetracycline (1953). Tuberculosis and some forms of pneumonia were brought under control. Virus diseases have resisted cures, but medicine developed effective vaccines that drastically curbed more of them-notably influenza and poliomyelitis...
...servicemen in Europe, it is the "Oversexed Weekly." To Major General Edwin A. Walker, late of the 24th Infantry Division stationed in West Germany, it is "immoral, unscrupulous, corrupt and destructive." To its proprietor, Marion Rospach, 36, a stocky, energetic divorcee with a tomboy bob, it is a paper of high moral tone because it refuses to cover sodomy cases or "trials involving indecent assaults on children." But the Overseas Weekly, an English-language tabloid published in Frankfurt, West Germany, balks at little else, takes particular delight in headlining the missteps of military brass. By last week, the Overseas Weekly...