Word: uniformed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quality As the Army has been insisting all along, it is signing up higher-caliber men than those who were dragged into uniform by the draft. Since conscription ended, the portion of enlistees in the top three of four mental categories used for classifying eligible people has increased from 76% to 93%. The Army's strategy is to continue raising standards so that the lowest mental category can eventually be eliminated. Since the end of the draft, the Army has already reduced the proportion of the bottom-category enlistees to 11% from...
...million or more Jews who perished at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, Mengele personified the insane, systematic brutality of Hitler's Third Reich.* As the shocked, uprooted prisoners arrived by rail at Auschwitz, Mengele, always impeccably turned out in a dress SS uniform, was the first person they saw. Placing himself between the rows of incoming prisoners, he decided their fate; a flick of a thin metal rod, held by a white-gloved hand, to the left meant immediate death in the gas ovens; to the right meant life-but what a life. Most of the prisoners would survive...
...Carter Country, a rural police station in the Deep South comes up looking like a country-fried version of Barney Miller stuffed with crackers. ("Would you press my dress uniform?" one redneck cop asks a policewoman. "I don't do sheets," she answers.) In its other entries, ABC takes to the sea: The San Pedro Beach Bums are five California boys on a rundown boat; Operation Petticoat, based on the old Gary Grant flick, unites a crew of sailors on a pink submarine and a contingent of bosomy nurses-war is swell, apparently. And in The Love Boat, Gavin...
...James L. White, dressed in silver sequins and high-heeled silver boots, he takes on all black TV and radio preachers. The Rev. White disdains little black dollars from little black folk. Says he: "We're looking for the Billy Graham dollars." Changing into a medal-encrusted uniform, Pryor is Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada, the man of the mad, murderous giggle. "I love American people," says the field marshal. "I had two for lunch...
...working for an employer doing business with the public? Where was fair play most faulted in the case of a New York City woman who charged discrimination against a restaurant that fired her after she refused (in obedience to her Pentecostal church's dictates) to wear the required uniform slacks? In her dismissal? Or in her acceptance of a job whose necessities she could not possibly fulfill...