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Lastly, while the Senate did provide for an 18-year-old draft, it specified that this age group could not be drafted until all "available" men in the 19-26 bracket were taken. No one, including members of the Senate Committee, is quite certain what this would mean when the act became law. The House, on the other hand, refused to go below 18 1/2 as a minimum age. Vinson says he does not see the need for a lower age. He believes that the Army can get enough manpower from the 19-26 group, if it uses its resources...
Winthrop's Tom Carter decisioned the Commuters' Frank Dewar in a close bout, 5 to 1, to take the 137-pound title. The Puritans' Bob Harding pinned Kirkland's Nat Berkowitz in the 136-pound bracket. Ernie Johnston of Kirkland took the fastest fall of the night from Roger Milkman of Lowell in 1:02 min. to capture the 123-pound crown...
While the Senate debated amendments to the new draft bill in Washington, President Conant yesterday again emphasized the importance of Universal Military Service and giving the Defence Department a free hand in dealing with men in the 19-26 age bracket...
Episcopal Minister Kew (who got his S.T.B. at Harvard) uses the psychiatric technique known as "group therapy." After private interviews, patients are grouped into "families," each containing five to ten men & women in the same age bracket. Together for 90 minutes twice a week, they air their anxieties, frustrations, fears and hostilities to each other under the careful guidance of Kew, who tries to bring about "transference" of each individual's real-life difficulties into the group, where they can be resolved by the conscious mind...
...Department's biggest worry has been that the Senators would tie its hands by the amendment forcing the Department to take all "available men" in the 19 to 26 bracket. Both Secretary Marshall and Assistant Secretary Anna Rosenberg had asked Congress to allow drafting of 18-year-olds and not to limit Defense authority in handling men in the 19 to 26 age group...