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Barry Goldwater consented only reluctantly to speak last week at a Republican fund-raising dinner in Hershey, Pa. He was well aware that this was unfriendly territory: above him in their presidential preferences, Pennsylvania Republicans probably rate their own Governor William Scranton, New York's Nelson Rockefeller and Michigan's George Romney...
...revellie at Fort Dix. Yet that bugle call is sounding nearer every day. As a result of President Kennedy's Executive Order dropping all married men to the bottom of the IA draft pool, the draft is moving well into the college years. According to General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, "in a few months a student with a IA rating will be lucky if he can reach age 22 without being drafted or deferred...
...this fact itself does not concern Harvard seniors carrying IA classifications, two other assertions from the general should. Hershey claims that a college student whose local draft board is unaware of his status as a student is a draft delinquent and could be drafted out of college, depending on the lenience of local officials. Secondly, if a major military crisis occurs, students who neglected to request IIS deferments within ten days of their initial classification might find their local boards receptive to a last minute deferment, Hershey adds. Moreover, according to Hershey, these students are playing a losing game since...
...named Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to head the committee. Also serving on the group will be Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirts; Anthony J. Celebresse, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; and Gen. Lewis Hershey, director of selective service...
...President, who had recently wondered why married men had to go into the Army, put a White House staffer on the project to help out. From Hershey's recommendations came last week's Executive Order No. 11119-making the draft solely for bachelors. Hopefully, it would lower the average age of inductees, give them a better idea of when they would be called...