Word: takings
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Where? Officer Candidate Schools could be expanded to take up the slack; in its present form, though, OCS is basically a cram course, and the graduates show it. Only the Marine Corps, which shuns ROTC, is currently satisfied with turning collegians into officers solely at OCS bases and summer camps. For other branches, the service academies would have to be enlarged enormously. West Point, for example, will turn out only 750 second lieutenants this year, v. the 17,000 second lieutenants who will graduate from Army ROTC...
...most efficient way for ROTC to fight the movement to take away its academic credit is to liberalize its curriculum. Instead of asking faculties to accredit military courses, in fact, the Pentagon plans to accredit more academic courses for ROTC, such as economics, psychology and political science. Purely soldierly skills may increasingly be taught at summer camps rather than on campuses. The problem, though, is whether such compromises will satisfy the ROTC's fervent critics. The trouble is that more and more campus idealists seem to view all armies as evil, including armies that defend free societies...
Such overexposure might well decrease, not increase, the public use of obscenity. No one throws a bomb that has no bang. Take the example of Esquire, which published Norman Mailer's scatological novel An American Dream five years ago (but asked Novelist Bernard Malamud last fall to change two obscene phrases in a short story; he refused, and the Atlantic printed the story and the two phrases). "We're using four-letter words less and less just because they've surfaced," says Editor Harold Hayes. "They're losing their force." This spring he plans to publish...
...healer in the nation. Although ignored by mainstream Protestant churchmen, he has a large and enthusiastic following among fundamentalist Christians in the South and Southwest. Last year alone, A. A. Allen Revivals, Inc. grossed $2,692,342-not counting the salaries of Allen and his two associate preachers, who take their cut directly from "their ministry...
...city's insularity does not really worry Promoter Seltzer all that much. The rest of the country knows all too well what he is doing. Take Atlanta, for example. Last week 3,600 Roller Derby fans jampacked Municipal Auditorium to watch the touring San Francisco Bay Bombers battle the New England Braves. The fundamentals of the game were easy enough to grasp: with men and women alternating, two teams of five skaters each circle a banked oval track in a tight cluster. Then one or two skaters from each team break from the pack and attempt to score points...