Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Based on the estimated draft needs for fiscal 1969, Massachusetts will have a quota of 4000 men, slightly more than 1.6 per cent of the national calls. About 2500 of the 4000 will be either college graduates or first year grad students...
...Harry Marmion of the American Council on Education said that as many as 80 to 90 per cent of graduating seniors may prefer the draft to enlistment...
President Johnson and Senator Eugene J. McCarthy are running neck-to-neck in Wisconsin. One recent poll showed them with 40 per cent each, and a 16 per cent write-in for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy '48 (D-N.Y.). If enough Republicans vote in the Democratic primary--either from a dislike of Nixon or boredom with the GOP's non-contest--they can swing the Democratic race...
...club has obtained the coaching services of Joseph L. Massimo, a former Olympic gymnast. He will be at Hemenway two or three afternoons per week this spring. The new facilities will be available to the Harvard community whenever the building is open...
LYNDON JOHNSON'S curious remark that, "the New Hampshire primary is one that anyone can enter and everyone can win," may yet prove one of the most astute comments on that event. Like the Tet offensive in Vietnam, the magical 42 per cent of the vote Senator McCarthy commandeered turned the 1968 campaign into "an entirely new ball game" in a number of ways. The primary, regarded as a sharp rebuke to the President himself and/or his Vietnam policy, may actually be an ironic stroke of fortune in an otherwise steadily growing list of political nightmares for the man from...