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...year the draft was abolished, Army ROTC enrollment fell to 33,000, or about one-sixth of its 1967 peak of 177,000. Today the number is 65,000. Air Force ROTC has climbed to 22,500, only 10% below its Viet Nam peak. The military is still absent from some private colleges, including Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Stanford, Brown and Colgate, all of which ejected ROTC in the Viet Nam era. But Navy ROTC now has a waiting list of 30 schools that want to join the 55 other campuses that train midshipmen. Army ROTC has grown from...
...mysterious call of the blood and flies to her father's side in London. There, estranged from the child's mother-he was always digging up stuff instead of tending to her wifely needs-he has latched on to Co-Finder York. Never was there such an absent-minded professor, or one so absently played. To make a long story unbearable, mysterious unpleasantnesses begin occurring as soon as father and daughter are reunited, and most of the people who get involved with her end up colorfully slain...
...footer less than a minute into the second half put him over the 1000 point mark for his career, the eighth Harvard player to do so. He now has 1005... Crimson co-captain Tom Mannix dislocated a finger at the 16-minute mark of the first half, and was absent from the Harvard lineup for the remainder of the game... McLaughlin, anticipating the fast-paced transition game, started Carrabino at center in place of 6-ft., 10-in. Bob McCabe. The freshman proved his coach right, with an excellent game in the pivot... The Portland Trail Balzers' Kermit Washington...
...many the tracks are almost a ritual. One Georgia fan claimed that he hadn't been absent from his post for a single home game during his whole four years. Some Tech fans also took their places behind the fence, and, even in defeat, they kept up enough commotion to make sure that their presence was felt...
...numbers fool you. Saturday night, B.U. simply blew away one of the top teams in the east, Providence College, in an 8-1 massacre (although 11 Friars were absent from the affair--rumors of a curfew violation during P.C.'s western trip). Terrier coach Jackie Parker deadpans, "everything we shot went into...