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This June, the Army should receive 14,500 newly commissioned ROTC officers. At the same time, because of a White House budget slash, the Army will have cut its active officer strength almost...
This June, the Army should receive 14,500 newly commissioned ROTC second lieutenants. At the same time, because of a budget slash, the Army will have to cut its active officers, strength almost 12,000 by June...
...first slash of dawn cut across the sullen grey sea, U.S.-supplied Grumman fighters tore into the coastline. They laid their napalm on a hill that overlooked the beach objective, worked the area with their machine guns. Then U.S.-supplied landing craft lurched towards shore. There was no resistance. The Communists, in the style of this uncanny war, had known for days where the French were landing, when they were coming, and how; they simply melted into the hills, taking the adult population of Tuyhoa with them. The small town was empty but for one suicide squad-eight men with...
...that I was to be Archimedes [see cut] in what a studio aide called une peinture qui sera vraiment extraordinaire. Dufy frocked me in a white toga-like affair which had been borrowed from an amateur theatrical group, had me strike the pose he wanted, and then began to slash away with bold strokes ... all the while keeping up a fast line of chatter with various onlookers. I nearly fainted after having stood virtually motionless for 50 minutes-during which the artist completed one painting and then, to my horror, tore it up and began another-but when...
...congressional hearing: "What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country." Kyes was the swaggering newcomer who flicked his fingers at generals' stars. When Wilson and Kyes made an across-the-board slash in Air Force funds, the feeling spread that in an atomic-bomb age, the saving of a dollar was getting a higher priority than defense. But behind the scenes, the new managers of military might were laying the base to get more defense for less money...