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These are not the strongest objections that can be leveled against the volunteer army. The easiest way to determine the actual cost, after all, is to raise salaries and see if enlistments increase. The ratio of Negroes in the army would probably not rise fantastically, since mental and physical tests would no doubt exclude a disproportionate percentage of members of disadvantaged minority groups. As for coups d'etat, they are usually led by officers, not enlisted men, and there is no reason that reliance on voluntary enlistments would significantly alter the composition of the officer corps...
...graduate programs seem easiest to sell. Chicago clearly ranked in the top ten in last summer's infamous survey of Graduate School education. But it never placed number one. Chicago newspapers played up the university's high standing, while simultaneously undercutting the survey's pretensions and criteria for judgement. The U of C's seven professional schools (Business, Divinity, Education, Law, Library, Medicine and Social Service Administration) likewise rank high, but none have an assured position in first place. Chicago can proudly claim 27 Nobel Prize winners in some form of affiliation, including its current President, George W. Beadle...
...many cavers, it's this gruesomely different kind of environment which makes the sport fascinating. In Ward's Cave, N.Y., one of the easiest, there may be as many as sixty people inside at one time, stumbling around each other. As soon as a new cave is discovered, the crowds head...
...date, Johnson has been at pains to seek Eisenhower's advice at almost every turn in the war, but last week he skipped any tete a tete with Ike and merely said publicly: "The easiest thing we could do is to get into a larger war with other nations. We are constantly concerned with the dangers of that. At the same time, we have no desire to capitulate or retreat...
...volatile is the political situation that Maddox, the Democratic candidate whom Republicans calculated would be easiest to defeat is now far ahead. The old-line segregationists who were talking up Callaway during the summer are now deserting the Republican camp for Maddox, who gained fame several years ago when he sold axe-handle "drumsticks" to beat Negroes away from his segregated Pickrick Restaurant...