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...Col. Paul F. Feeney, deputy director of the Massachusetts Selective Service, emphasized yesterday that students will be among the last groups affected if there is any tightening of deferment policy...
...would be temptingly easy to dismiss Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., U.S.M.C.(ret.) and astronaut as little more than a huge boy scout made good. Tall, tanned, fit, graceful, handsome, just shy enough, pleasant, polite, friendly, modest, sincere--just think of any epithet related to "clean-cut," and it probably applies to the colonel. A country lad who went to Muskingham College, a United Presbyterian Church school in his home town of New Concord, Ohio, married the girl a quarter of a mile down the road, joined the Marine Corps in 1941 and stayed for 18 years, Glenn seems about...
Every Thursday morning, in a ritual as fixed and revered as the changing of the guard, the Bank of England's 18 di rectors meet behind its Corinthian col umns and mahogany doors to plot their strategy for protecting the pound. In measured tones, they debate how much money to borrow in the domestic mar ket, whether to buy or sell sterling in foreign markets and - most important -whether to change the bank's interest rate. After each meeting the chief liai son man, Peter Daniell, dons his top hat, starts on a 21-minute walk across Bartholomew...
...whole platoon of De Gaulles." What Viet Nam needed, in Mecklin's view, was someone like the Philippines' late President Ramon Magsaysay, who broke the back of his country's Communist Huk rebellion by offering the malcontents "total friendship or total war." Diem offered neither. Tax col lectors, not aid officials, followed his troops into liberated villages. Suspicious of his own generals, Diem rarely committed his reserve forces to battle when needed largely because he wanted to guard against a coup...
...office of the Presidency--the same holds true for George Washington LL.D. (hon.) 1776, John Adams 1755, LL.D. (hon.) 1781, and Thomas Jefferson LL.D. (hon.) 1787--and no doubt the Corporation had second thoughts later on. But there are precedents: Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant and Col. Theodore Roosevelt '80 were all honored after they had attained what used to be called high office...