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Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, now 72 and head of the selective-service system since it started, doesn't think it makes much sense to change policies now. "We have to start with the as sumption that American policy presumes a college graduate is better prepared to be a citizen for all reasons than a nongraduate," he says. Turning the statistical tables on his anti-college-deferment critics, he says: "Look at the people who are serving. Who are they? They're most likely to be the middle-class and upper-class person. Those denied a chance...
Encouraged nonetheless by McNamara's "concrete proposal," South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers, House Armed Services Committee chairman, called a committee session to hear Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey's opinions on current draft procedures. Wisconsin Democratic Senator Gaylord Nelson suggested that a bipartisan committee begin a study of the system...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A family of private eyes-father (Robert Young), son (David Wayne) and holy terrors (Barbara Hershey and Brooke Bundy)-in pursuit of a jewel thief...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The cameras follow "The American Draftee" through his induction, training and service to his eventual readjustment back to civilian life. Walter Cronkite interviews General Lewis Hershey...
Some 1,750,000 college men got the word last week from the Selective Service System on how they can retain their coveted 2-S draft deferments-and Director Lewis B. Hershey made it sound easy. If they choose to take standard college qualification tests to be offered by Selective Service in May and June, undergraduates need only score 70 out of a possible 100. If they fail or shun the tests, freshmen must rank in the top half of the men in their class, sophomores in the top two-thirds, juniors in the top three-fourths. Graduate students must...