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While Congress' new draft law awaited the President's signature, thousands of young men had stormed the nation's armories. To them, a three-year hitch in the National Guard or Organized Reserves (with regular drill periods near home) looked much better than a 21-month hitch as a draftee. By the time the President signed the law, the reserves were chockablock with new recruits, and the Guard was almost over its national goal of 341,000 enlistments...
...twice-postponed opener with Boston College for today at 4 o'clock, the Varsity base ball coach got word that center fielder James Kenary had been operated on for appendicitis and a couple of more hours later saw night fielder John Caul-field got spiked in a practice drill...
Most of their music, he said, "sounded like a dentist's drill or a musical gas wagon. ... It is simply beyond endurance," he roared. "Pay attention to this...
...hour, the ship's placid routine was not disturbed. Then, at fire and boat drill, Tomas Montanez was missed. The ship turned back upon her course. Officers engaged in minute calculations. Sailors swarmed up to the crosstrees and passengers lined the rails to stare at the twinkling, pitiless face of the sea. Though there was no hope that Tomas Montanez would be found, the curious code of civilization demanded that a thorough search be made. Then, amazingly, after an hour and a quarter, a passenger raised a shout...
...Committee must first weigh the value of the training that the bill proposes. The part that UMT will take in the shaping of the individual trainee's personality is a comparatively minor matter. Certainly six months of boredom, frustration, and close order drill will mold the conscriptee into neither a "fine upstanding youth" nor a "neo-fascist" unless he had strong tendencies in one of those directions at the outset...