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...bomb sent the whole railway station right up into the air, its golden cupola sailing over the trees. Another wrecked St. Catherine's Church. Watching from )behind the barbed wire of the concentration camp, 509 felt a sudden soaring of .he spirit. He crawled toward the camp barrack, determined to stay alive...
...hundred and fifty freshmen who will commute made the rooming problem simple this season. In past years men lived barrack style on the floor of the Indoor Athletic Building while University Hall sweated to find niches for them...
Only the Beginning. The barracks-bred coup is so common in Latin America that latinos have a word for it: cuartelazo (from cuartel, barrack). Declared the manifesto of Bolivia's new junta: "This is not a cuartelazo.''' According to the junta, "the anarchic tendencies of certain groups" necessitated the army's "temporary presence in power." Authority will be restored "as soon as possible, to him who, by the constitution, has the right...
When the tan, barrack-type buildings were put up in 1946, the City provided that they must be torn down in five years. The deadline was last February, but the University asked for an extension until the summer to demolish the houses to prevent turning veterans and ther families out during winter and school months...
...what your attitude toward military life should be if you are going to "get ahead," and suggests ways that experience gained in service can be useful later in civilian life. Actually the book supplies little information that the veteran of one month will not have learned through intuition or barrack room gossip: But as a handy reference work for the novitiate, this book gathers information that otherwise isn't easily come...