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...have plenty of alternate suggestions. On the Democratic side, he could think of half a dozen who fit the bill: Truman, Eisenhower (political affiliation unknown), Chief Justice Vinson, Senators Fulbright or Kefauver, or Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan ("who is coming up fast"). On the Republican side: Senators Saltonstall, Lodge, Duff, Ives, Morse, Aiken, or Governor Thomas Dewey...
...size of the freshman class, one of the factors in the enrollment picture that was fuzziest in January, has since cleared up. Representative Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said last week that an 18-year-old draft will almost surely not be necessary immediately because the Army should be able to fill its ranks by drawing on the 19-26 bracket. This means that incoming freshman classes would be almost untouched...
...drafted until all "available" men in the 19-26 bracket were taken. No one, including members of the Senate Committee, is quite certain what this would mean when the act became law. The House, on the other hand, refused to go below 18 1/2 as a minimum age. Vinson says he does not see the need for a lower age. He believes that the Army can get enough manpower from the 19-26 group, if it uses its resources carefully...
When the House and Senate bills go to a joint committee in April some of these controversial clauses may be traded off. And Vinson will have the chief part in any "deals." He is recognized as more of an expert on homeside military affairs than most generals; and Millard Tydings left a less experienced man in charge of the Senate Military Affairs Committee when he lost chairmanship of that group after last November's elections. Vinson has said that he will fight any attempt to lower the minimum age or to write in a student deferment policy...
...completed their service will be a reserve into which men who have completed their service will be fed. Since no adequate reserve system exists now, the Congressmen will have to work one out, and many of them would like to make substantial changes in the present set-up. Chairman Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee, for example, thinks too many men now are "beating" the draft by going into the reserves. Others feel strongly that a good reserve system would only include those men with actual military service records, and that one containing men without this experience is weak...