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Four Harvard men went through the program at Fort Knox last summer; this summer, 40 are expected to enter the two-year gauntlet at various camps. Again, Vietnam may have had much to do with the rise in applications, but few students knew about the two-year program last year. It was not the subject of an intensive information campaign until last September...
...anything, his stock has risen as a result of his feud with Lyndon Johnson, whose civil rights policies are not popular in Arkansas. Said a Little Rock businessman last week: "Bill has laid the gauntlet down and said, 'I'm going to say what I think.' A great body of people around here will defend him for that, even if they feel he's wrong." Adds James Powell, editorial-page editor of the Arkansas Gazette: "Fulbright got a lot of sympathetic reaction to Lyndon's blackballing him socially. That makes a lot of people...
...Proviso. The President threw down his spending plans like a gauntlet before those who have attacked his Great Society programs. "I have not come here tonight to ask for pleasant luxuries and for idle pleasures," said Johnson. "I have come here to recommend that you bring the most urgent decencies of life to all your fellow Americans." Then he put forth his faith and his warning for the coming session: "I believe that we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Viet Nam. But if there are some who do not believe this, then, in the name...
...only Senator to suggest publicly that Long step down as whip has been Arizona's Carl Hayden. Long was not about to take the hint. In Baton Rouge last week, he threw down the gauntlet. "If they don't want me to do it," he said, "they'll have to fire...
...CRIMSON touch football juggernaut, flushed with triumph after its glorious conquest of the Young Democrats, has retrieved the flung gauntlet of a traditional rival--the Daily Princetonian...