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While the Selective Service System may need some refinements in social, fiscal or academic terms, it would make little sense to compel tomorrow's doctors, scientists and industrial captains to spend prime years in menial Government service. Despite the immediate inequity of deferring college men ahead of others, in one way or another the U.S. has always placed a comparable premium on achievement and excellence...
...toward him. Secular man may be anxious, but he is also convinced that anxiety can be explained away. As always, faith is something of an irrational leap in the dark, a gift of God. And unlike in earlier centuries, there is no way today for churches to threaten or compel men to face that leap; after Dachau's mass sadism and Hiroshima's instant death, there are all too many real possibilities of hell on earth...
When fully explored and analyzed, De Lumley's discovery may compel a drastic reassessment of the social organization and civilization of pre-Neanderthal man in Europe. Until now, working with the meager data available, scientists have been convinced that, unlike the men who inhabited the Riviera site, the creatures of the Second Interglacial Period lived in the open or sought shelter in caves. They were clearly far more civilized than that...
...majority decision, by Kennedy Appointees Griffin Bell and Lewis Morgan, held that Tuttle's dissent was too restrictive on the lawmakers, since there is nothing in the Georgia constitution to compel the house to seat a member "if a reasonable basis . . . exists for the denial." Bond's endorsement of the strident antiwar policy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, said the two judges, is such a reasonable basis...
...impulses, which I fully share, than of solid constitutional thinking," he said in dissent. He argued that the "public function" of privately established schools and privately established parks is clearly similar. If the majority thought that its decision left "unaffected the traditional view that the 14th Amendment does not compel private schools to adapt their admission policies to its requirements," said Harlan, he did not agree. He found it difficult "to avoid the conclusion that this decision opens the door to reversal of these basic constitutional concepts. The example of schools is, I think, sufficient to indicate the pervasive potentialities...