Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...influence made its mark in the complete revision of two of the three basic technical social science courses, History 1 and Economics 1. But the third such course, Government 1, has thus far retained its aloofness from the trend...
...date, the question of a similar revision of the basic government course has been completely shelved...
...practical purposes U.M.T., as it was being considered, was not a feeder system anyone could depend on. Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey wanted, instead, six months' basic training followed by two solid years in the ranks. This would be U.M.S. (Universal Military Service), not U.M.T. It also had the backing of Marine Reserve Brigadier General Melvin Maas, ex-Congressman from Minnesota, who last week was named to a Pentagon committee to restudy the whole reserve problem. "It will be expensive as hell," Maas observed. "But we ought to be able to afford it if the Russians...
...Element of Fear." In Kashmir over the weekend, Nehru still clung to his confusion. He attributed Red China's attitude toward Tibet to an "element of fear" in Peking. He also saw the Peking regime as "the strongest government China has ever had in all her history ... [a] basic fact [that] cannot be ignored in formulation of policies by nations...
Also published last week was a booklet on sex, marriage and the family, prepared by the Church of England Moral Welfare Council, which declared that sex "is the basic human fact and therefore the ground of all social life." If the church is to "save the world from its own despair," the council concluded, "she will have to take more seriously than she has so far done her duty to help men & women understand and accept, in the deepest sense, their sexuality, and to see in it a clue to their very nature...