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...most valid criticism of the draft as now operated is that it is inequitable. Of the nation's 2,200,000 physically fit men in the 18½-to-26-year-old bracket, only 120,000 get grabbed by the draft each year. Thousands of others volunteer, but the fact is that in the skimpy-quota peacetime era it requires little imagination to think up a reason to be deferred, e.g., as a student, a farmer, a scientist or a hardship case. Thousands of 17-and 18-year-olds exercise their alternative right of fulfilling military obligations with...
...young adults, said Dr. Tsunehisa Takeyama, is 54.8 per 100,000. Accidents are the next commonest cause of death, with a rate of 42.8, and tuberculosis third, at 21.3. No less than 34% of all Japan's 22,000 suicides a year are in this transitional age bracket; suicide drops to third-place killer (after TB and accidents) in the 25-to-34 decade, and declines progressively to tenth place in the 55-to-64 range...
...Certainly there are many which can be readily eliminated by a modification of the present system. One of the major objections to retaining rents as they are is that the deconversion which will result from moving upperclassmen into Quincy House would necessitate a drastic raise in the upper rent bracket. However, it appears that this possibility has been overemphasized. While deconversion may indeed occasion a small general increase in rents, most of the newly-vacated space will be taken up by non-resident tutors' offices and upperclassmen moving out of Wiggles-worth and perhaps out of Claverly, to make room...
...University is negotiating to become a financial backer of Cambridge's first management-type cooperative apartment house. In addition to providing more housing in the lower-middle income bracket, the venture "will accomplish a real purpose by showing that building of this sort can be done here," John W. Teele, Planning Coordinator, stated yesterday...
...control might be needed to discourage any doctors from overcharging insured patients. As a start, it might prove most practical if state insurance covered any medical expenses which exceeded a certain percentage of a patient's income. Any such percentage could be determined according to an individual's income bracket and would allow for dependents...