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Frustration has sometimes seemed to exceed progress. Rockefeller's term started with a bitter aftertaste of Faubus' twelve-year reign. The Democratic legislature-there are only three Republicans, v. 132 Democrats, in the two houses-confirmed 93 of Faubus' lame-duck appointments to state agencies, then attempted to block Rockefeller's nominees. The Governor had to go to court to make good an appointment to the public service commission. Like Arkansas Razorbacks crunching opposition ball carriers, the legislators downed one Rockefeller proposal after another: an audit of the corruption-tainted highway department, reform of jury selection...
...should be done, specific deferment of students is abolished, or comparable postponement is made equally available to all young men, the number of men eligible will exceed the number needed by the military services. The means of determining who serves and who does not serve, within this eligible group, must be fair and non-discriminatory and must appear fair and non-discriminatory both to those who are selected and those who are not. We know of nothing but a random process--a "lottery"--that will meet their conditions...
...college students are not permitted and they should not be permitted--to avoid eventual liability for military service, the supply of eligible young men will exceed the military demand for them about as much as if nobody were deferred. Thus the need remains for a randomized selection process to determine who shall serve...
...State Farm Mutual, the world's biggest auto insurer (annual premiums: $940 million): "The insurance company is basically only the scorekeeper." So high has the score mounted that over the past decade the insurance industry has suffered auto liability underwriting losses (the amount by which claims and expenses exceed premiums) of more than $1.1 billion. Only when investment income is included in their book keeping do auto insurers generally show a profit...
Having abandoned last year's 3.2% guidepost in January, Ackley did not suggest what limit on wage or price increases would be fitting now. But he conceded that "most wage settlements" in 1967 will exceed gains in productivity. Without more voluntary restraint, he argued, the U.S. will stabilize prices only by the "disaster" of continuous peacetime price and wage controls or "higher unemployment-some say 5%-than the American people will or should tolerate...