Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown, who usually seems as combative as a chocolate soldier, the decision worked like a bugle call. "Off to the races!" he cried at an 8 a.m. capitol press conference. Then, boarding a battered DC-7 in Sacramento, Brown prop-stopped from the far north to the Mexican border for a series of six airport press conferences announcing his candidacy. Thirteen hours and 1,500 miles later, Brown, 60, was as perky as ever. "When I get into a political campaign," he chortled, "the old adrenalin starts shooting through my veins...
Constant Fear. By no means does every soldier get to church on Sunday -nor do all of them want to go. "I don't believe for one minute that old saw about there being no atheists in foxholes," says Chaplain (Major) Frank Vavrin. Only about 17% of U.S. troops in Viet Nam regularly attend services on an average Sunday-35,000 men at 1,000 services. Chaplains estimate that more than 60% of the soldiers never go at all. One reason for the low attendance, suggests Air Force Captain Robert Cortez, is that the Viet Nam war is considerably...
Pajamaed Defenders. To help the Army achieve that aim, the 3rd Brigade's 419-man teaching cadre, 31 of whom are Viet Nam veterans, spent six weeks building Vinh Hoa, which they named for the Rev. Nguyen Lac Hoa, a Catholic soldier-priest who began fighting the Viet Cong in 1959. The instructors' wives wove grass rugs and made clay cooking pots, while children helped to fashion the village's huts and whittled vicious punji stakes of bamboo. For added authenticity, chickens were let loose to roam the village...
Good words and brave. It remained to be seen whether the political reconstruction of a nation as large and complicated as Nigeria could be achieved by a soldier who, for all his good intentions, had never before grappled with problems of state...
...deferment, and draft boards were generally willing to extend the deferment for the increasing number who decided to go on to graduate school. Under the new rules, the draft boards will now decide whether each student is more important to the national welfare as a student or as a soldier. Most administrators expect a crisis to come this summer, when many "to-the-end-of-the-term" deferments will run out and be closely reviewed by draft boards. "I foresee losing quite a few students by September," says Byron H. Atkinson, dean of students at U.C.L.A. Says Tennessee State Director...