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John B. Fox Jr. '59, director of the Office for Graduate and Career Plans, yesterday blasted as "unwise, insensitive, and a serious misappropriation of funds" the severe Congressional cutbacks announced in Fulbright scholarships...
...moment the cutbacks are not serious for Harvard, Fox said, explaining that the scarcity of graduate draft deferments has already limited the number of students in the Fulbright program. "But when the draft situation clears," he said, "the Fulbrights won't be back...
...Fulbright program has been generous to Harvard in recent years. Each year American students, undergraduate and graduate, have won about 900 one year scholarships for study and travel abroad. Of these, Harvard students have usually won about 60, more than any other university in the country...
Because the Fulbright awards are not announced until May, however, as many as half of the Harvard winners, having made other plans or accepted rival awards, annually turn them down. Last year the severity of the new draft laws further cut into the number of Harvard students accepting Fulbrights...
Liberal party members are few and far between, many have joined moderate Governor Winthrop Rockefeller's Republican Party. Sen. J. W. Fulbright is about the best party members can hope for especially while Wallace's growing support threatens even moderate elements of the party...