Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro in Viet Nam" [May 26] is a well-deserved tribute to the courage, devotion and intelligence of the black troops serving in battle. However, one statement in your excellent report cannot go unchallenged. Noting that the proportion of Negro inmates in the military prison at the Long Binh jail is the same as that of white inmates, TIME asserts: "Unlike Negroes in previous wars, the Viet Nam breed is well disciplined...
...union's officers notified the membership over the weekend to report this morning for picket duty. According to BGMA officers, the strike was called because of Harvard's "refusal to bargain with the BGMA's [collective bargaining] representatives, the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council...
...right! Students who do not score at least 560 on the College Board Language Achievement Test do not (contrary to your report in Monday's paper) have to "take and pass two full courses in a language to graduate from Harvard." They have to get 560 on the test we use at Harvard, which for French, German, and Spanish is the Modern Language Association Classroom Test, the scores of which are equated with the CEEB scores. How he upgrades his ability is a matter of his own choice. Some go to Europe. Most take a semester or more...
...major fault in the House bill is not corrected: the provision for a continuation of undergraduate deferments. It is quite probable, unfortunately, that the conference committee will accede to the House on this crucial issue. While the Senate bill left the President with authority to eliminate deferments, the committee report accompanying that bill strongly recommended that the President let students graduate before drafting them. So there is not likely to be much strong opposition from the Senate conferees to the House provision...
...House version does not even rule out graduate school deferments. It would leave to a National Manpower Resources Board the right to recommend--on the basis of graduate school studies or occupations--which lives should not be risked in the military. The intent of the President's Commission report and the Senate bill (to prevent legal draft dodging through endless graduate deferments) would be abandoned...