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...interpreted service in the "national interest" to include only military service and related "defense" endeavors. For example, linemen for civilian telephone companies who work at bonus salary for the benefit of foreign-based military installations are often, thereafter, permanently deferred. The SSS considers their work to have furthered the "national interest." On the other hand, a college student who works on a volunteer economic development program in South America is not considered by the SSS to have performed any service in the national interest...
...scholar who has never given much credence to the theory that a conspiracy was behind John F. Kennedy's assassination is John P. Roche, former Brandeis dean, ex-national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, and currently Lyndon Johnson's "intellectual-in-residence." For the benefit of those who accept the theory, he cites Roche's law: "Those who can conspire haven't got the time; those who do conspire haven't got the talent." Last week, in a letter to the London Times Literary Supplement congratulating Oxford Don John Sparrow for his incisive...
...longer term, the U.S. is leading a drive to create a new monetary system that will, in time, loosen the world's umbilical ties to gold. From the American viewpoint, the current system unfairly penalizes the U.S. because it has run up deficits doing things that benefit the world, such as spending for foreign aid and tourism, lending and investing in capital-short areas. Thus, any new system has to provide a liberal and flexible credit window for tiding over countries with justifiable deficits. Most important, the system has to be one that eases the world shortage of monetary...
...fact, the hospital did not even know what had happened to this unidentified patient since he returned to the U.S. As for Proulx and five others, said the hospital spokesman, they had had routine surgery for decompression of the spinal cord, followed by physiotherapy, with moderate benefit, as is usually seen in such cases...
Building schools to accommodate everyone who can benefit from more education-and almost everyone figures that he can-creates a pressing need for overall planning in order to avoid conflicts about where campuses should be built and how the available money should be shared. Forty states now have coordinating boards that theoretically control all forms of higher education. The tidiest system of them all is still that of California, where former President Clark Kerr's master plan is continually reviewed by a coordinating council that includes representatives of the state's private colleges. The Kerr plan assigns clear...