Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bunnysuits suddenly appear, highstepping wildly to the strains of Yes, Yes, My Baby Said Yes, Yes. And when a sweetly-lisping Eileen loses control of her rowdy charges, she miraculously dons a long silver-lame dress and launches into Love is Good for Anything that Ails You, as her squadron of toddlers tapdances behind her on rows of white pianos. Instead of actually singing, though, Eileen and her chorus mouth the words to an original version of the 30's hit. All the songs in the film are done this way, and it adds a bizarre twist to Arthur...
...COLD Saturday morning down at MIT's New Athletic Center finds the atmosphere quiet but cheerful. Today, the three Flight groups of cadet squadron one are meeting for drill, and everyone is very polite. People salute each other. A civilian visitor is addressed as 'Ma'am' or 'miss.' The cadets gather in small groups, straightening each other's name plates and wiping doughnut crumbs off the blue serge of Air Force ROTC's winter uniform in preparation for inspection. "It's not like anything is going to happen to you if your shoes aren't shined enough," says Steven Perry...
Although ROTC officials emphatically discount the importance of this military ritual, the cadets take it seriously. Besides planningthe marching moves each Flight will perform during drill, they are responsible for its scheduling and for making sure attendance is consistent. The mock squadron is staffed and consistent. The mock squadron is staffed and led by a hierarchy of juniors and seniors who have been promoted to ranks that correspond to actual Air Force positions. "It's true that an active duty officer will rarely have to drill," says Bryon Fortson, a cadet corps commander and MIT senior. "But here...
Leaders of American Jewish organizations were especially dismayed by the AWACS vote, and the tactics they thought the Administration had used to win it. On the morning of the Senate roll call, How ard Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, cornered Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese in a hotel room in San Francisco. Meese was in town to keep a longstanding date to address an A.J.C. dinner that night. Squadron accused the Administration of trying to muzzle his organization by implying that the A.J.C.'s lobbying against the sale had put Israeli interests ahead of America's. Furthermore, he complained...
...speech at the dinner, Meese assured his audience that the Administration would prosecute any anti-Semitic acts under civil rights laws, and that it had pushed the AWACS sale in large part because it hoped to bring Saudi Arabia into peace negotiations with Israel. His audience was not mollified. Squadron, in a speech following Meese's, again insisted that the Administration "appeared to challenge the loyalties of those who oppose the arms package...