Word: 90th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever new schemes are presented by educators or Administration men in order to make the selective-service system fairer and more efficient, the current draft law must be renewed-or rewritten-by July 1, 1967. Already two congressional committees are studying the system, and when the 90th Congress convenes next January, one of the essential orders of legislative business will almost certainly be to present a refined draft bill...
Such Democratic losses cannot be considered as an unequivocal repudiation of Administration Vietnam policy. The new 90th Congress will on the American voting public. The President's most outspoken critics -- Senators Wayne Morse, Ernest Gruening, J. William Fulbright -- are not probably continue to support the present Vietnam policy. But it will be less likely to back negotiations with the Viet Cong, bombing pauses, or other dove policies. It will also be hostile to the Great Society domestic programs...
...axiomatic for Ethical Culture that a good deed is better than a bad creed. This week, when the New York Society for Ethical Culture-mother chapter of the nationwide American Ethical Union-celebrates its 90th anniversary, it can take credit for enough good deeds to honor spiritual institutions ten times as big. Over the years, members have been responsible for creating the N.A.A.C.P., the American Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Aid Society, the Visiting Nurse Service, and the nation's first settlement house...
...playground, he felt, "was more challenging." Wandering recently through the results of his commission, on a 100-ft. by 200-ft. lot between Manhattan's West 90th and 91st Streets, bordered by a new, mediocre low-income housing project and a high-income boys' school, Nivola said, "There is a desolation and barrenness to these buildings. I wanted to relieve that, to introduce a friendly atmosphere in plastic form...
McNamara's decision meant the striking of the colors of many of the most famous and decorated divisions in the National Guard and Army Reserve, probably including the 32nd "Red Arrow" (TIME, Oct. 13, 1961), the 77th "Statue of Liberty," the 83rd "Thunderbolt" and the 90th "Tough 'Ombres." McNamara put a stop to an old Army practice of awarding Reserve commissions to newly elected members of Congress. Said he: "We shall not tolerate traffic in commissions." More than anything, the decisions signaled a definite increase in the power of the Department of Defense, moving the U.S. military establishment...