Word: third
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There is widespread support for maintaining the Navy's ability to engage when necessary in some old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy, especially in situations in which there is no direct U.S.-Soviet confrontation. An American warship making a port call or steaming off the coast of a Third World country might indeed bolster a regime friendly to Washington. In a period of mounting local tensions, sending naval units to strategically important regions, such as the Persian Gulf and eastern Mediterranean, could dissuade the Soviets from intervening...
...center now look more like a college campus than a military base, with many sailors sporting blue denims. The hefty pay raises (a seaman E-3 makes $460 monthly in base pay, compared with $99 in 1958) mean that most sailors can afford apartments in San Diego. Petty Officer Third Class Anthony Moseby, 23, for one, can. This means that each weekday morning he is up near dawn in his beach apartment, dons his jeans, sweater and tennis shoes and drives to the base. Aboard his ship, at the bunk assigned to him, he changes into regulation dungarees and goes...
Instructors are having some special problems. Observes a training officer at Great Lakes: "The reading level of our recruits is often below third grade. That means the sailor can't even read a warning sign on a ship's boiler room." One reason for low levels: creation of the all-volunteer military has removed the threat of being drafted into the Army, which was for years an incentive for youths to join the Navy. This means a growing number of the Navy's recruits are young men seeking cheap vocational training or an escape from some social...
...surprising third legal action, Robert W. Meserve, the Harvard power plant attorney, yesterday requested a temporary restraining order against the appointment of Assistant State Atty. Gen. Charles Corkin, Jr., as the hearing officer for the appeal within the DEQE...
Figaro doesn't fall on its face, by any means; but it comes close enough to make one wonder at the disparity between the production and the book. It's hard to figure out quite what the problem is, but as the play moves into its third hour, it begins to dawn on you. Basically, this is two plays, with two not-quite-linked plots put on either side of the intermission...