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On performance, the WACs had proved themselves. The failure was not theirs but the nation's: U.S. women still refused to join up. That was Colonel Hobby's headache-and to a lesser degree it has become the headache of Captain Mildred H. McAfee of the WAVES, Commander...
In the beginning Hobby had confidently proclaimed: "Women will come marching -shoulder to shoulder-to serve their country. ... I predict that all America will be proud of them." Last week she said pensively: "I don't think it is so strange that there are no more women in uniform...
To either TIME'S Army & Navy editors and their researchers ... or to their "baldheaded SPARS squeegeeing paint" (TIME, Dec. 20) a couple of clean rags, a bucket of "soujge" and another of fresh water to clean their paint-work.
WAVES, who did just a little better than their quota, have also been getting a cold shoulder in recent months from U.S. women. SPARS and Marine Reserves reached their smaller goals some time ago. But in recent weeks their recruiting has also been hamstrung by the same vast apathy.
The regular Coast Guard sometimes scoffs. The TRs themselves keep happily busy. They even accept cheerfully the regulars' nickname: bald-headed SPARS.