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...percentage of students planning millitary service immediately after Harvard has dropped from 14 per cent in 1962 to 8 per cent in 1965. Beecher said. This year, Beecher expects a slight rise in enlistments; students who know they do not want to go to graduate school are apt to enlist to avoid being drafted...
Speaking for irate Italians everywhere, John N. (for Napoleon) La Corte, general director of the Italian Historical Society of America, warned directly: We are going to put Yale against the wall. La Corte threatened to enlist the National Geographic Society in support of Columbus, but dropped the idea when he learned it was the Geographic that sponsored the 1963 excavation of a Scandinavian village in Newfoundland that dates from about...
...group, selected for its representativeness and diversity. The petition was accompanied by a covering letter that stated: "We urge you to take whatever action you think most appropriate. Write to the President yourself, sign the enclosed petition, pledge to return your medallion, sit-in at the White House, or enlist in the army...
...getaway gadgets -including tear-gas earrings and a garter that converts to a gas mask-but she has not a chance of escaping the banalities of her script. CBS's The Wild, Wild West and Ulysses S. Grant ("The nation is in a pot of trouble, boy") enlist Major James West as a post-Civil War Bondsman. He is outfitted with his own railroad car replete with pool table, cues that unsheath to become sabers, billiard balls that detonate as hand grenades. But such gimmickery is simply cumbersome. Except for President Grant, who needs...
...refining." Still pirouetting as he addressed an imaginary teen-age audience, Dirksen cried: "You may be allergic to ballet dancing, or driving a truck, or operating a filling station, but have a look anyway. Be fascinated just to look at work." Even the pas de Dirksen failed to enlist support against the Administration bill requesting $1.5 billion to extend the war on poverty−the pending business of the Senate...