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...etched in red, tacked upon the molding. Inside a chandelier, tear-shaped bits of glass strung together in the form of a globe, dangles in the hallway; the walls are bumpy, like just dried mud plaster, broken by an oil painting of a girl in a red equestrian's uniform astride an auburn thoroughbred in a forest. The living roomis furnished in imitation gold-leafed Louis XIV, with mustard velvet upholstery and matching floor length drapes. There are three six-year-old portraits of the Rath children above the fireplace and a bust of Andrew Carnegie on the mantle...
...represent some of the biggest cruds in Florida," he cheerfully told a Senate subcommittee. Back in the '50s, he spoke out against racial segregation. He played a major role in drafting a new state constitution that won voter approval in 1968, and he was largely responsible for establishing uniform rules of procedure in Florida courts...
...inducement to volunteers, Congress has approved bonuses?$2,500 for a high school graduate enlisting for four years in a combat arm, $15,000 to a doctor who signs up?and has dramatically raised military pay. It now costs taxpayers $12,448 a year to maintain each person in uniform, compared with $3,443 in 1950. In all, the volunteer force has added $3.1 billion a year to the Pentagon budget. Manpower now accounts for 56% of defense costs, compared with 43% ten years ago. Still, even skeptics like Chairman John Stennis of the Senate Armed Services Committee agree that...
...applications to the military academies, but officers like Lieut. General Albert P. Clark, superintendent of the Air Force Academy, find "that Viet Nam has made things more difficult. The military image has been tarnished to the point where it is more difficult to make a man proud of the uniform." Explains one instructor at the academy: "When we signed up to go to military school, they gave us parties. When these guys go home on leave, their girl friends won't let them wear their uniforms...
Moreover, there might well be a noticeable trend towards making the Houses' composition more uniform. Last spring, oddly enough, an unprecedented number of freshmen were assigned to Houses they hadn't asked for. The computer was so set on having each House represent the whole college that it put some people who hadn't applied to Lowell in Lowell, even though hundreds of freshmen who did apply there were turned away. This fall, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life decided to reaffirm students' freedom of choice. They began by eliminating master's choice, class rank, home town and field...