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...decision not merely to reevaluate but also to "redirect" the commitment to Viet Nam, he suggested that the President should then appoint a commission for the purpose of proposing a new policy. Kennedy's suggested members for the group included himself and such men as Yale President Kingman Brewster, former Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Generals Lauris Norstad and Matthew Ridgway...
...educational costs have begun to soar. Kingman Brewster, president of Yale, estimates that his operating budget will climb from 89 million dollars to 206 milion dollars by 1976 without a change in enrollment. At present, no one foresees any significant increase in public or private aid to cover these rising costs. If the Bank loans were generally available, Congress and wealthy donors might even feel justified in reducing the present level of their aid. Since the Zaccharias plan assures that every student can finance his education regardless of its cost, colleges would probably raise student charges to incredibly high levels...
...Haven, Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr., who has been critical of Coffin's anti-draft activities, said that the indictment warrants no change in his status in the university. Harvard officials have not contacted Ferber...
...protest on which a wide array of Americans could agree. In October, Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey advised the nation's 4,081 draft boards to strip deferments from students and others who interfere with the draft. Since then, Congressmen, judges and university presidents, including Yale's Kingman Brewster and Columbia's Grayson Kirk, have protested the decision. Kirk even suspended on-campus recruiting by the armed services pending a reversal of Hershey's harsh decree. Massachusetts' Senator Edward Kennedy last week said the new procedure would make draft boards "both judge and jury...
...nearly a year, Vassar's trustees last week declined marriage, preferring to remain, as they put it, "mistress in our own house." Moaned the New Haven campus daily: "Yale's gentlemen suitors have been jilted. All we can do is take it like men." President Kingman Brewster Jr., sounded manful enough when he noted tersely that the decision was a "disappointment...