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...dozens of new "work rehabilitation camps" springing up across the land. To qualify, the victims needed only to be "work shy" or reluctant to volunteer for the army, or merely generally "injurious to the public welfare." Two workers at a carbide plant in Buna were beaten for failing to enlist for military service, then were hauled before a judge, who noted happily that "they got the fist of the workers' class for their cowardly statements." In Leipzig, two members of a jazz club drew 13 and 15-year terms because, as the court put it, they were "stimulated...
...revealed background of their character, nature and connections." Added Frankfurter: "Where the mask of anonymity which an organization's members wear serves the double purpose of protecting them from popular prejudice and of enabling them to cover over a foreign-directed conspiracy, infiltrate into other groups and enlist the support of persons who would not, if the truth were revealed, lend their support, it would be a distortion of the First Amendment to hold that it prohibits Congress from removing the mask...
...only 8,000 volunteers have applied so far for President Kennedy's Peace Corps. They had hoped to receive some 15,000 applications by the end of May, when entrance examinations will be held in 330 U.S. cities. Then, after a rigorous screening, they would be able to enlist 1,000 corpsmen-just enough for a first-year pilot program. Now, faced with the prospect of obtaining far less than 1,000 acceptable corpsmen, Peace Corps officials may lower entrance requirements, cut back or stretch out programs planned for work-fertile areas...
After a march around the Yard falled to enlist substantial support from Harvard freshmen, the Engineers prostrated themselves before the status of John Harvard and then left by the PBH gate. The demonstrators were greeted at the MTA entrance by a squad of riot-trained Cambridge policemen, who herded them into the subway and waved happily as they departed...
When a small group of sophomores took charge of the dying Yacht Club about a year ago, several former Crimson salts, including US Olympic 5.5 champion George O'Day, '45, told them that if they ever managed to enlist enough interests, something might be done about providing the Crimson with boats and a clubhouse...