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Upon completion of either program, students receive commissions as Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps. Contrary to rumor, Elder declared, newly commissioned Second Lieutenants do not automatically become "cannon fodder." He revealed that a recent survey of the latest Officer Candidate Class showed that of 515 duty assignments, only 116 were sent to replacement centers in California, the others receiving stateside billets or admission to specialist schools...
Brake on the Pentagon. Coudert's proposition made good political fodder in an election year. But it was recklessly irresponsible. The Coudert amendment had nothing to do with appropriations; it arbitrarily clapped a tight brake on the rate at which the military may dip into its kitty to accept and pay for finished weapons for the U.S. armed forces. Of the $52.5 billion that the Pentagon had planned to spend this year, $14.1 billion is for fixed costs such as troop pay and maintenance; $10.8 billion is for military equipment too close to delivery to be canceled; the balance...
...Johnston-Buffett & Co. made 75,000 telephone calls for Taft, mailed 60,000 pieces of literature, showing how to write in his name. Buffett appealed to the considerable isolationist sentiment in Nebraska. Said he: "Eisenhower ... is the candidate of those who would have American boys die as conscript cannon-fodder thousands of miles across the ocean...
...morose expression. It is even harder to know. Though it once roamed as far south as Kentucky, it never learned to duck when hunters began shooting; now all but extinct, the musk ox lives on the fringe of the Arctic, where it munches lichen and other inferior fodder, and apparently spends a great deal of time watching it snow...
...attaining "the common core of knowledge" which G.E. is supposed to provide. To cut away one course, then, is to deny the program's underlying purpose, and once that is done, there is no reason against making all G.E. courses simply another option of the students' search for intellectual fodder. Even one concentrating in a field like Government, say, supposedly has much to gain from a year spent with the Social Sciences. If this is not true, the University might as well junk General Education altogether, and not dally with watering down the requirement...