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...regular hiking companion with Major General R. McC. Tompkins, U.S.M.C., former commanding general, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C., and now commanding general, 3rd Marine Division, Viet Nam, I wish to correct your statement concerning the general's " . . . limp at the end of a ten-mile hike" [Nov. 24]. From my observation of General Tompkins, as we hiked with thousands of (wide-eyed) recruits on weekly twelve-mile jaunts at Parris Island, I can assure you this statement is incorrect-there is no limp. The general does carry a walking stick when hiking which, in his words...
...they were an outside organization and they wanted to recruit for jobs, that would be all right," said John B. Fox '59, Director of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans, in support of the Administration's decision...
...librarians, Wilson said, "have always been very leery of having any sort of advertising in the library." He said he had personally considered the presence of VISTA, the Peace Corps and the Marines an "intrusion" on the academic character of the library even when they were permitted to recruit...
...G.I.s snakes cautiously through the underbrush. The sudden chatter of a machine gun sends them scrambling for cover, and for several long tense minutes there is a furious exchange of small-arms fire. Then, just as suddenly, all is quiet, and out there in the elephant grass a young recruit lies twisted in the grotesque posture of death. He had been with the company for a month, someone recalls, but sadly, no one can remember his name. Says one G.I.: "He had freckles ... I think...
...addition, the CIA will recruit off-campus next month rather than at Columbia, as the agency had originally planned...