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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Department yesterday reduced the June draft call from 29,500 to 20,000. The Pentagon also announced lower draft calls through the fall, including a July quota...
...scale gives higher letter grades for some numbers than did the old. Five of the eight numerical grades that used to be C's, for example, will now be B's. Under the old system, more than 50 per cent of the first-year grades were C+ or lower...
...lower calls should not significantly affect this year's seniors and first-year graduate students, who become draft-eligible in June. Their induction may be a month or two later, but nearly all of them will still be called...
...Experience is or has been? Should we use as typical the Republic of Haiti, where black men have ruled a sovereign state since the early nineteenth century, but where also such Black Rule or, if you prefer, Black Power, has been oppressive and dysfunctional for the black masses or lower classes? Or should we take the present-day state of Nigeria, where the polity is rent asunder by fratricidal warfare that was sparked by a grotesque genocidal act committed by one against another in this largest of all black societies? Or should we take as typical of the Black Experience...
...student claimed economic discrimination was so great that only three per cent of Harvard students come from homes with incomes lower than the national median. Peter K. Gunness '57, director of the Financial Aid Office, said he was not sure of the figure, but he thought it was closer to twenty per cent...