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...qualify as a specialist, you will take eight weeks of basic training instead of sixteen, and then get sent to a lab or a hospital for a fairly pleasant life...
Otherwise you will take sixteen weeks of basic probably in infantry (Fort Dix, N.J. or Fort Jackson, S.C.), Armor (Fort Knox, Ky, or Fort Hood, Tex.), or Field Artillery (Fort Dix. N.J. or Fort Sill, Okla.). The choice is made by officers whom you will never see and on the basis of mere caprice, so there is no way of influencing your branch of service...
...than a young grind called Vernon, whom everybody else detests. Driven to extremes by constant date refusals, Weldy goes out to pick up a girl and ends up with a 30 year-old friend of his mother. What Weldy doesn't know is that there is a delicious young sixteen-year old girl (the most popular one in town) who secretly loves him. These are the set-ups, pushed in with a blunt...
...some 700,000 Argentines made pilgrimage to her bier in Buenos Aires.* Most waited for more than 15 hours to get a 20-second peek at Eva's thin and wasted face-and often at Juan Perón, who kept long vigils at her glass-topped casket. Sixteen persons were killed, crushed and trampled by the throngs; 3,900 were in hospitals with injuries; thousands of others got first aid. In the 20-block, four-abreast queue were infants in arms and a 102-year-old woman who cried, "I've never known real pain before...
They met to add a new word to the language-Anzus (for Australia, New Zealand, U.S.). Sixteen months ago, faced by New Zealand's and Australia's reluctance to sign the Japanese Peace Treaty, President Truman announced a Pacific pact of the three powers to guarantee one another's security...