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...their few hours of spare time, soldiers are put through a wide variety of well-organized activities such as acrobatics, choral groups, folk dancing and sports. Draftees are allowed to leave the camp on Sunday, and get a ten-day leave once during a two-year tour. While off base, they are forbidden to drink anything stronger than beer. The punishment for tippling is ten to 15 days in the stockade. Though the sentence may be sus pended after a day or two of confinement, the unexpired term is tacked onto the tour of duty. Heavy drinkers have been known...
Focus on Details. Yet Wrede still shouts "Come out and get cold!" to his actors when they linger overlong in dressing-room trailers. He delights in closeups that capture the frost etched on a ten-day growth of stubble, or the gleam of a runny nose. "The rule in the actual prison camps was to suspend work if it reached 40 below," he says. "My rule is 39 below, not to be worse than Stalin...
UNLIKE most Wellesley girls who spent the semester break skiing at Stowe or visiting boyfriends at Yale or Princeton, my ten-day intercession found me at Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois, on Chicago's North Shore, is commonly known to Easterners as the oldest and strongest enclave of Black Power and Greek Power...
...squash team now has a ten-day break until its next match against Army on Dec. 17. The well-conditioned Cadets always present a challenge to Harvard, especially at West Point. Army is one of the few teams that uses a seamless ball, and coach Jack Barnaby will have the Crimson practicing with this different ball in the next few days...
Rules for the Fedayeen. The ten-day shoot-out between the Lebanese army and Al-Fatah, which threatened to plunge Lebanon into civil war, was settled by a compromise. Major General Emile Bustani, Lebanon's chief of staff, who represented President Charles Helou at the Cairo talks, gave a pledge to Yusser Arafat, leader of the main guerrilla organization, Al-Fatah, that...