Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the Truman order, and the Marine Corps moved ahead. The Army, as Author Nichols says, was "the mule of the military team." Korea changed that; there simply were not enough white replacements, and field commanders were forced to fill in with Negroes. Once away from his Jim Crow unit, the Negro was a different soldier. How different became readily apparent in the results of Project Clear, an Army survey of the new racial policy. Items: ¶ On the test of standing up to mass attack, where Negro soldiers had had a reputation for taking to their heels...
...University of California, already the most sprawling citadel of education in the U.S. (38,000 full-time students on five campuses), this week added a sixth separate unit, the University of California at Riverside, a liberal arts college. Equipped with a spanking new $6,000.000 campus, U.C.R.'s Provost Gordon S. Watkins, formerly head of U.C.L.A.'s 3,000-student liberal arts college, hopes to keep the addition small in size, but strong in the humanities. Opening enrollment: 200. Anticipated limit: 1,500. ¶ From Boston came two hopeful plans to discover potential juvenile delinquents before they start...
...officers. It shows your office qualities in that you are looking out for the interest of the group." He said that non-membership is looked upon as the "same as not going to drill." "Actually," noted Jenkins, "membership is voluntary only up to the point where you join the unit...
...Scandal. Montagna promptly instituted slander proceedings against Editor Muto, who also awaits trial under a 1931 Fascist law for "having published false and adulterated news." The press of all parties, and in particular the Communist L'Unità, made the most of the scandal. It had everything: decadent aristocracy, orgies, playgirls, dope, and even a mystery-the still unsolved story of what happened to poor Wilma Montesi...
...Manhattan for major operations or treatments, 2) it will be able to treat patients with rare ailments, which medical students otherwise would never see, and 3) it should break down some of the town-v.-gown feeling which has resulted in Yale doctors' sending their patients to one unit of the hospital, while town doctors huddled in another...