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...nation on July 4, 1776, as every Fourth of July orator is proud to relate. But the oratory frequently overlooks the fact that another Glorious Fourth-July 4, 1863-marked the climax of the battle to preserve the Union. In the west on that day, after a six-week siege, Confederate Vicksburg fell to General Ulysses S. Grant. And in the east, General Robert E. Lee's forces began their sad retreat south across the Potomac after three days of the biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. history had known-Gettysburg...
...Committee on Educational Policy also recommends that the entire 12 week period of training be included in one summer session. Earlier there had been discussion of splitting the manual instruction into two six-week training periods...
...program, as designed by a sub-committee of the Committee on Educational Policy, would bring about sweeping changes in the present ROTC curriculum. The new plan includes provisions to condense the present four-year plan of study to three years, to enlarge the six-week summer camp to 12 weeks, and to liberalize the present ROTC curriculum. Under the new program students would be admitted to ROTC as sophomores, instead of as freshmen, as under the present...
...MARINE CORPS accepts some 300 Navy R.O.T C. graduates each June, but trains most (1,100) of its college students in draft-exempt platoon-leader classes, commissions them on graduation after two six-week summer-training sessions...
Moving fast to consolidate the power he won after a six-week seesaw battle with Mohammed Naguib, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser turned last week to the problem of a faithless friend. During the years he risked his neck plotting the overthrow of King Farouk, Nasser handpicked every one of the 14 original members of the Revolutionary Command Council, including Major Khaled Mohed-dine. Nasser knew that husky, young (33) Moheddine had been a Communist, but he accepted his oath of loyalty and his pledge to quit the Communist Party...