Word: uniformly
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Under the military pay bill signed into law by President Kennedy last week, everyone in uniform with at least two years service will get a raise. The table below compares the old Army and Navy maximum basic pay scales with those provided by the new law. The same hikes will go to equivalent Air Force and Marine grades...
...billion military pay boost, which the President quickly and "with great pleasure" signed into law (see box). Effective as of Oct. 1, the raise is the first for servicemen since 1958, gives its highest-percentage increases to younger officers and noncoms as incentives to keep them in uniform. For those who are risking their lives in such cold war hot spots as Viet Nam but are technically ineligible for combat pay, there will be an added $55 a month in "hostile fire" pay. No sooner had Congress acted than Defense Secretary McNamara ordered an end to special overseas-duty...
Forgetting its promise to confer with the Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs on any policy decision affecting undergraduates, the Administration last Spring sought and obtained Corporation approval of the principle of uniform room rents in the Houses. On Tuesday it officially announced the substitution of a single $510 a year rent for the current, confused multilevel assessments...
...case for uniform rents remains inadequately argued. It will not do to say a flat fee saves the Masters a lot of secretarial work unless such work can be shown to be unnecessary. It is unquestionably easier to remove a rent differential as a basis for room allotment, but not necessarily wiser. For in addition to allowing students some discretion in planning their budgets, the multiple rent system also provided a reasonable way to allocate a scarcity in the University--highly desirable rooms...
Members of the Administration disagreed on the amount of room changing the uniform rent and allocation by seniority would inspire. Although it was reported that Yale students, who pay a standard rent, often shift rooms annually, Glimp observed that "there is a general propensity for creature comfort" in New Haven which he doubted exists at Harvard