Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Approved, by a 333-to-5 House vote, a $1.2 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...
Queen Victoria Street. The new General aims "to do the job we've always done, but better and more efficiently." He has no intention of dispersing the Army's hard-puffing brass bands, or of pleasing younger officers by adopting a slightly more chic uniform: "I think the lassies never look prettier than when they're wearing their bonnets...
...stressed that the College needs younger men with three or four years of graduate study to grade exams and papers, consult with students, and "tell them what went wrong...
Those Dodgers who could not make the necessary adjustments retired, or, like Duke Snider who will end his days as a Met, were traded. Men like Sandy Koufax, who came to the Dodgers wilder than Steamboat, reformed. The younger generation is significantly better than its predecessors--just more serious. Only Maury Wills has any idea of what Dodgers are traditionally supposed to do, and even he makes his base more often than...
...Alec went to his father's school, Sherborne, where he was everything a public-school boy should be: a star batsman at cricket, a fine forward at rugby, a winner of the English verse prize. What changed that Kiplingesque image was a mild flirtation he had with a younger boy. When it was discovered, the experience soured his last months in school but inspired the novel that brought him early fame -The Loom of Youth...