Word: three
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will ultimately decide Calley's fate, have already been chosen by Major General Orwin C. Talbott, commanding general at Fort Benning, Ga. All career officers at Fort Benning, they range in rank from captain to lieutenant colonel; five are in the infantry, two in the Signal Corps and three in other branches of the Army...
...providing attractive services, Britain's three private medical insurers have developed a booming business. The largest, British United Provident Association, controls 14 nursing homes containing 464 beds, offers nine different hospitalization plans to its 1,500,000 members, and now takes in $30 million a year. Like the two other private firms, the company offers coverage for private medical care, hospitalization, nursing and surgical services...
Every British jobholder pays a weekly N.H.S. tax of 46? per man, 38? per woman and 26? per child. The added expense of private coverage, a minimum of $58 a year for a family of three to a top of about $166, once made it accessible to only a small minority. No longer. Roughly 70% of Provident's recent business has come from company group policies. Once limited to top executives, these policies are being extended to more and more employees...
...saving while spending, they not only buy more than they need but, as Basement General Merchandise Manager James Gormley says, "they end up spending more money than they would normally." Each day throngs of shoppers-as many as 200,000 at Christmas time-surge through the store's three dungeon-like underground levels, fighting for everything from name-brand nylon panties at 39? a pair to a Russian sable worth $8,500 and a positive steal at $3,000. As the outlet for surplus stock from such fashionable stores as Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and I. Magnin...
...Shoppers crowd before mirrors trying on clothes. One woman removes her raincoat, turns seconds later to find another woman trying it on. Since there are no dressing rooms, shoppers pull on three, four dresses, one over the other. Others unashamedly strip to bra and panties. "A few years ago," says Manager Gormley, "so many men were spending lunch hours staring down at the women from the stairwell that we had to build partitions...