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...After eight weeks of struggling to prove that the nation's tax-exempt foundations had somehow been responsible for promoting something that seemed somewhat un-American or something, a House Special Committee, headed by Tennessee's Republican Brazilla Carroll Reece, decided by a party-line vote (Republicans 3, Democrats 2) to end public hearings and to allow the foundations to submit sworn written statements instead. Official reason for the decision: "In order to expedite the investigation and to develop the facts in an orderly and impartial manner." But Ohio's Democrat Wayne Hays had another version...
...were told about the plan Monday and asked a lot of questions them which were not answered, including whether all this service would legally make us draft exempt," said one. "Despite our lack of complete information and the suddenness of the new plan, we were told that we had to sign on the dotted, line by Wednesday noon. Some of us just weren't willing to take the chance...
...second time in the last two years, representatives of the Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and smaller foundations are under Congressional fire for using their tax-exempt funds to support projects "not in the public interest." But so far the Committee has expressed less concern with the abuse of tax privileges than with the policies of modern education...
...Look. Since the start of the Korean war, the Pentagon has had no trouble signing up students for draft-exempt R.O.T.C. Seventy colleges have asked for and obtained units. Moreover, some 140 colleges and universities (e.g., Cornell, U.C.L.A., Louisiana State) now require two years of military training; R.O.T.C. courses neatly fill the bill. No longer permitted merely to train and then pool their R.O.T.C. graduates, the services now must assign newly commissioned officers to active duty. To attract career men and train reservists, each service has added considerable brass to the campus...
...MARINE CORPS accepts some 300 Navy R.O.T C. graduates each June, but trains most (1,100) of its college students in draft-exempt platoon-leader classes, commissions them on graduation after two six-week summer-training sessions...