Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) plans to propose a bill early in the 1968 Senate session that would abolish this protection. But unless American casualties in Vietnam reach a level that can be universally regarded as catastrophic, his bill has little chance of passage. Congress voted last summer to keep undergraduate deferments in the face of both the President's Draft Commission's recommendation to abolish them as well as the statement of U.S. Commissioner of Education, Harold Howe, that he considered them "unjustified." The current American dream is to send one's sons to college, and -- barring...
...Committee is also rallying support for Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) in his efforts to boost medical aid to Vietnam...
...other draft matters, Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) said in an interview today that he would propose institution of a random selection draft system early in the 1968 Senate session. Kennedy's bill would also call for the abolition of undergraduate deferments once American casualties in Vietnam reached a prescribed level...
Known as the center of Environmental and Behavioral Biology, it will coordinate the activities and facilities of several Harvard institutions already involved in this work. "It's a consortium of interested persons, scattered in different areas of study, who have recognized this as a coherent field," Edward O. Wilson, professor of Zoology and chairman of the new center, said last night...
Died. Cora Baird, 55, puppeteer; of cancer; in Manhattan. With her husband Bil, she created a magic world of dancing figures and impish characters, and for 30 years their Baird puppets, starring Hedda Louella McBrood and Edward R. Bow-Wow, entertained countless children in films, on TV and in shows from India to the White House...