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...days later, the Congressmen hopefully tackled Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg. How about the 799,000 4-Fs? "Here is what the country is disturbed about," explained Chairman Carl Vinson. "We read where some football player or prizefighter, able to draw $10,000 a season and perform all the work of star athletes, just hasn't got the physical strength to carry a rifle, a hand grenade, or to cook." And as for those disqualified for mental deficiencies, "even if a man can't read Latin or Greek, he can do a little fighting...
...Capitol Hill, hard-bitten old Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, tapped his foot impatiently, waiting for the Pentagon to stop talking and get its bill up to Congress so he could begin his hearings. If the U.S. was finally to get a draft law with teeth in it, he was anxious to get started...
...Vinson's statement confirmed reports of last month that the Defense Department would seek U.M.S., a program strongly backed by President Conant and the Committee on the Present Danger. Conant told the CRIMSON in December that the Committee would argue in favor of U.M.S. before Congress if the plan were included in the Administration's measure...
...Vinson also told reporters that there will be no induction of veterans whose past service now protects them from service. "We have told the Defense Department," that (they) are not to be drafted," he said, apparently speaking for his committee...
Explaining the military's request, Vinson said it wants a 27 month service limit "to assure 24 months of active service from each draftee." The other three months would cover such things as processing and providing for terminal leaves, he stated...