Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ceremonies will begin at 9:20 a.m., as the procession marches from the Old Yard to Tercentenary Theatre, led by the University band and William G. Anderson '39, University Marshal. The Faculty and Others of the University will wear robes of crimson, blue, black, silver, and gold representing the many universities from which they come...
...marchers will follow the order of procession used since the days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, with the sheriffs of Middles and Suffolk Counties walking behind the University Marshal, followed by the President and Fellows, the Board of Overseers, Gov. John A. Volpe, and the Faculty and degree candidates...
...this country, there is a large group of stateless men who would welcome an opportunity to fight for their country. I refer to convicts-men who have lost their freedom by their own misdeeds. You will recall that Field Marshal Rommel put his criminal elements together in a motorcycle battalion and subsequently awarded them several unit citations. Many of us at Kentucky State Penitentiary are youthful offenders; some, like me, have had military training. We beg for a chance to prove ourselves on the Viet Nam battlefront...
...idea of a conscription lottery is far from new. The U.S. used it in July 1917 to pluck 687,000 draftees from 10 million registrants between the ages of 21 and 31. Conceived by Army Provost Marshal General Enoch H. Crowder, the drawing was made in Washington from 10,500 numbered slips of paper (10,500 was the largest number of registrants signed up with any single local board). The first number pulled from the fishbowl was 258, and every registrant with that number was called. In all, 1,374,000 men took physical exams; 70% passed and then...
...answer is that paradoxical land of six republics, five nationalities, four faiths, three languages and two alphabets-Yugoslavia. For 18 years, Marshal Josip Broz Tito has led his Adriatic nation of 20 million people down the path of a socialism of sorts. Today, as the rest of Eastern Europe begins to catch on, Yugoslavia remains the most autonomous, open, idiosyncratic and unCommunist Communist country anywhere on earth...