Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston for treatment four months ago, ensconced himself in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where he rented the entire fifth floor and posted armed guards to keep newsmen away. Was the tenant really Hughes? Reporters picked up a trail when they heard that Hughes was spirited off by private train to Las Vegas and carried on a stretcher at 4 a.m. to a penthouse bastion at the Desert Inn. The hotel doesn't even show that he is registered, and a spokesman put out the word: "He's never been in better health." But then how would the spokesman...
...conservative economics also predicted that since a volunteer army would have fewer men to train, the number of men staffing training centers could be reduced...
...opium from the poppy field of Persia to the junk shops of Harlem whip out their trusty Geiger counter and go lickety-click from Teheran to Geneva to Naples to Nice. En route they run a grim gauntlet of all-too-familiar thriller scenes (bang-bang on the Blue Train, hugger-mugger on the bad guy's yacht, hack-the-stripper in a nudie nightspot) and unpleasantly overripe chestnuts ("How'll we get there-take the midnight camel?"). By the time the heroes get the heroin the customers may find themselves in something of a narcoma. The very...
...rested on the same premise as the Selective Service rationale for deferring students. Washington defends the student deferment on the grounds that, in the long run, it is in the nation's interest to protect its human resources. An educated student who has already cost thousands of dollars to train is obviously more valuable and of greater potential to the state than a high-school drop-out. The college student will almost always make a larger contribution to the Gross National Product than someone who does not achieve the same level of education...
...flat refusal to permit the game. He mentioned additional police protection, busing students to and from the game," and channeling part of the crowd into the subway through the MBTA yards on Mem Drive, so that they would not have to enter the Square to catch the train. Whitlock also suggested that a different date for the game might reduce the size of the crowd...