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While President Johnson kept his own counsel on the issue of additional U.S. troops for Viet Nam, the Senate for the first time in months held an angry debate on the war. What troubled its members-including some longtime supporters of the Administration's policy-was the fact that Johnson was preparing to act without so much as a by-your-leave from Congress. "I think it would be a mistake," declared Bobby Kennedy, "for the President to take a step towards escalation of the conflict without having the support and understanding of the Senate and of the American...
Between the wars, the United States kept the ROTC-trained reservist as the key figure in the nation's defenses, maintaining the tradition of the civilian soldier dating back to the Minutemen of 1775. But the ROTC system was not merely romantic; it was also reasonably successful. When war came in 1941, a reserve of over 56,000 ROTC graduates was available for active duty to permit a more rapid mobilization of the nation...
Injuries weakened the Crimson squad. Captain Andy Kopecki (123) was out of the line-up recovering from an appendectomy. Howie Freedman (177) was suffering from the effects of a bout with mononucleosis, and Danny Naylor (130) sustained a knee injury earlier in the season that kept him out of the last five meets...
...candid about the two-faced policy the health service follows with regard to confidentiality. If he feels free to decide unilaterally in an area as critical as the decision to take one's own life, that it is not his patient's right to have these most private thoughts kept in confidence, how is the patient to know what other sensitive area will be beyond the good doctor's limits? If I were a student in need of psychiatric service, I would take little comfort from Dean Glimp's outrageous assertion that tutors must know about students with suicidal impulses...
...realize we must shape up to win the university's respect," Kaplan said yesterday. One of his proposals called for the Faculty Committee on Houses to make public the Gill report which recommended charging a special fee to students who wish to live off-campus. The COH has kept the report confidential...