Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground ROTC will not give blood as a unit. The Red Cross Blood-mobile is a 20-bed unit, and cannot handle made than 70 donors an hour. Red Cross workers prefer to keep their facilities available for all donations, civilian as well as military, rather than fill them up with large groups, such as ROTC, and risk a drop in donations...
Struggle. The U.S. Army drafted him in 1942. He was sent to the U.S. Fifth Bomber Command in Brisbane, Australia as an aviation mechanic, but his flair for writing got him a transfer to the U.S. Air Force 10th Historical Unit. In uniform in Australia, and again as a sergeant in the Philippines, he sought out the Communist Party. "What impressed me most was the armed struggle and that the Party here was at a more advanced stage of revolution," he wrote to a friend. After his Army discharge, he took up Party propaganda work in New York, wrote...
...went about obtaining this dollar: they may have "threatened" the students with not being admitted into the advanced course, or employed similar tactics to force the deposit. However, this was probably due to overenthusiasm on the seniors' part, and is definitely not the attitude of the administration of the unit. The excitement is due only to the fact that the freshman who wrote the letter lacked the insight to understand this and went off half-cocked. Judging by his attitude towards the unit and the military in general, it is clear that his only aim is to gain deferment...
Many freshmen enrolled in the Air Force ROTC unit here at Harvard have been disgusted and bewildered by the recent methods employed in getting "one hundred percent, not ninety-nine," turnout at the annual dance on May 16. The cadets and officers running the dance have used methods which amount to blackmail. In a recent air science class a dance committee representative spoke for about ten minutes to the class and implied that he was going to give the student cadets the "inside story." Simply, the story was that if a student does not put down a dollar deposit...
...rough reception awaits the freshman lacrosse team at Deerfield today. The prep school team is one of the finest in New England, and the Crimson, as Coach Bob Pickett admits, "is just starting to play as a unit...