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...basic proficiency test, he enters a second eight-week period called Advanced Individual Training. During AIT, the recruit learns further skills based on his aptitude and interests, finally qualifies in one of 950 Military Occupation Specialties ranging from "creepy-peepy" (battlefield radar) to computers (by which warehouse sergeants now tot up rations). In all, today's soldier gets four months' training v. eight to twelve weeks in World War II, and in subjects unimaginable only a few years...
...toughness comes naturally. Gibson's father died a month before he was born, and as a tot, recalls his mother. Bob had rickets, hay fever, pneumonia and a rheumatic heart. Childhood ailments did not keep him from becoming a two-letter man (baseball and basketball) at Omaha's Creighton University. But when he tried touring with the Harlem Globetrotters, he had a series of asthma attacks and quit...
...campus, where it once was squaresville to flip for the rock scene, it now is the wiggiest of kicks. Brenda Lee, 20, a tot-sized (4 ft. 11 in., plus five inches of hair) rockette who developed her belting delivery as a high-school cheerleader, outranks Folk Singer Joan Baez and jazz's Ella Fitzgerald on the college popularity polls. "Rock really turns everybody on," says one Princeton senior...
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 16-The one issue not in question at the National Teach-In on the Vietnam War on Saturday was that Mackerel Special Assistant tot he President for National Security Affairs, would never appear. But it became the issue...
...goes beyond a rote knowledge of who said what. These teachers may also delight in the cept as a handy way of rating the quality of a student's essay in quantitative terms. They merely scan the essay, underline the cepts, assign a numerical value to each, and tot them up. Other teachers never admit they are even aware of cepts-but tacitly use them anyway in grading. Superlative ceptsmanship amounts to a canny duel between teacher and student...