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...sophomores. Only trouble: there were just barely enough teachers and classrooms to start instruction for the seniors (juniors were promised classes this week in two hurriedly purchased warehouses, but there is no immediate prospect of school for sophomores). Teachers recruited by Brashears are as varied as a Foreign Legion battalion, range from competent to questionable. School financing is by private donations. Last week Attorney General Bruce Bennett promised that each student forced to transfer to an accredited public or private school could draw perhaps as much as $172.66 in state funds for tuition, but accreditation of Little Rock...
...Phillips, Jr. '34, President of the Boston Council of the Navy League, will review the NROTC battalion this afternoon at 2 p.m. in recognition of the nation-wide observance of Navy...
...build a Nike site in the U.S., has undertaken a crash program to finish the sites in 50 days, though it still had no formal contract nor any blueprints. Banking on Vinnell's know-how, the Army last week flew in an advance party of a missile battalion from Texas...
...Arab nerves already raw from poverty, humiliation, despair. In Lebanon, occasional bombs still went off, and 1,700 glad-to-be-gone U.S. marines left their fly-ridden bivouac in the dusty hills above Beirut and marched down to the beach for evacuation. There were hints that another marine battalion would shortly be withdrawn from Lebanon to the "floating reserve" of the Sixth Fleet...
Soothing Words. What had changed the prince's mind? For centuries Cambodia, heir of the lost civilization of Khmer, has had to fight off incursions from its close neighbors-Viet Nam, Thailand, Burma. Two months ago a Viet Nam battalion occupied three Cambodian border villages, after having previously imprisoned a number of Cambodian peasants. Sihanouk appeared to think invasion was imminent...