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...been Maryland's Congressman-at-Large since the office was created in 1960. He holds a spotless pro-civil rights and pro-labor record with a 100 ADA rating. He is young and looks forceful. He had the support of both of Maryland's liberal Democratic senators -- Daniel Brewster, who ran against Wallace in 1964, and Joseph Tydings, the Kennedy-style junior senator who defeated machine man Louis L. Goldstein in the same year. Tydings was making a bid to take over the party in the state from the present governor, Millard Tawes, who at 72 has already served...
Yale President Kingman Brewster is almost savage in his denunciation of the draft policy that allows broadside college deferments: "It is unfair; it is undemocratic; and-worst of all-it fosters a cynical disrespect for national service and corrupts the aims of education." Princeton President Robert Francis Goheen argues that because draft calls are still relatively small, the system is "unnecessarily erratic in what it does to young men's lives. Great inequities occur which are not compensated for by any real social gain. We have enough educated manpower that just the pursuit of a Ph.D. in history, classics...
...Brewster cautioned that the statement merely constituted a go-ahead to further exploration and discussion of the possibility, rather than an official decision to open Yale to women...
Sources in the Yale administration said Sunday that it was fair to expect a careful examination of the need for, and feasibility of, a "co-ordinate" women's school, similar to the Harvard-Radcliffe system. However, they stressed that Brewster has not yet decided the scope and form of the investigation...
Furthermore, Brewster said, the corporation would not favor admitting women if it meant reducing the number of men in Yale College, and insisted that the addition of women would have to be underwritten by "sufficient funds to maintain the quality of the university...