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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gung-Ho Look. Both units are completely integrated and in the same proportion-about 17% Negro. And there were grounds for grievances other than racial. The Quartermaster Company, the only Army unit on the base, must submit to a midnight bed check, while airmen have only to report for duty each morning. As an airborne unit, the Quartermaster Company keeps in rugged physical shape, has the tough look of gung-ho soldiers. The men of the Supply unit have the look of office workers and the vanity of intellectuals. One airman sneered, "You could take that whole Army company across...
...communes of the Great Leap exist no longer except on paper, and the countryside is dotted with rusting pillars of pig iron, melancholy memorials of the backyard furnaces that Mao thought would revitalize China. The typical farm unit now is a production team of 25 to 40 families, which are given considerable autonomy in deciding what and when to plant. Private plots were returned to the peasants in 1961, and are producing well for the free market. As usual, the Communists keep close watch: the stick comes down in the form of close regulation of the free market...
Short Rations. It is all very frustrat ing for the 200-man U.N. team, which was rushed to the scene from the Gaza Strip two months ago in an effort to stop the shooting. The unit, made up mostly of Yugoslav soldiers and Cana dian airmen, was far too small to police the vast, empty Yemen frontier, and from the start it was plagued by bad breaks and hostility from local authori ties. The team's first commander. Swedish Major General Carl von Horn, had hardly set up headquarters in the mud-walled capital of San'a when...
...buildings: a $4.700,000 biological sciences building, a $1,700,000 law building, a $2,600,000 apartment project for married graduate students. A new $2,200,000 medical building will house the Duke Center for the Study of Aging plus a diagnostic and treatment unit. Earlier this month Duke awarded a $1,200,000 contract to build a 188-ft., 350-ton oceanographic research ship-a seagoing laboratory-classroom that Duke will share in a cooperative venture with about 25 other universities and colleges...
...Focus on America (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Study of the New York City Police Department's Missing Persons Unit...