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Following is the text of the statement by Lieutenant General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director, to all local draft boards...
Following is the text of the National Security Council's advice to Selective Service director Hershey...
...General Hershey's draft statement will hit the Crimson sports coverage especially hard. We need some eager, talented young Grantland Rices. Travel, exposure, glory. Come to the Introductory meetings next Tuesday and Wednesday...
...thorough reform the Selective Service System needs. But combined with the present policy of drafting the oldest men classified 1-A first, yesterday's directive is a bit of careless expediency--clearly unfair to the students who would have filled the nation's graduate schools next year. General Hershey's statement that a random age mix could not be feasibly implemented is a commentary on the disarray of Selective Service administration, which needs reorganization as badly as its system of deferments...
...National Security Council directive comes just a week after President Pusey pleaded to a congressional subcommittee for a more equitable mix. The decision is a slap in the face to Pusey and the academic community for which he spoke. It is even a disservice to the military, which General Hershey himself has said is worse off with older men than young draftees...