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After several months of speculation, testimony, hearings, and general uncertainty, the Senate Armed Services Committee finally has a draft bill that it can work over. This bill, approved by the Preparedness Sub-Committee, goes a long way toward meeting the Defense Department's objective of true Universal Military Service, but it has some reservations that will probably cause the Department, in future hearings, to ask for revision...
...Administration had requested blanket authority to draft eighteen-year-olds, but the bill as it stands now could interfere seriously with this program. In deference to the mothers of present and prospective eighteen-year-olds, who seem to constitute a politically influential group, the sub-committee's bill directs local draft boards to take all "available" men in the nineteen-to-twenty-six pool before moving into the eighteens. And to deal with the transition period for the country's colleges, the new bill provides that 75,000 men, chosen on the basis of nationwide tests, will be sent back...
Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett told the CRIMSON last night that Department officials were still going over the report of the sub-group, but would have their minds made up by this morning when they expected to be called to the Hill...
...skiing tournament 45 miles to the north of Hanover took place in bitter sub-zero cold. Many weekenders by-passed the athletics and elected to settle by crackling log fires...
...Head (Tallulah Bankhead;. Columbia). For her debut as a pop singer, Tallulah has borrowed Marlene Dietrich's sub-basement baritone and German accent with results that will please curio collectors if not musicians...