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Members of Congress immediately joined the fray. Seven liberal Senators from both sides of the aisle introduced a bill that would make it illegal to reclassify anyone as "delinquent" unless he destroyed or turned in his draft card, thus removing the threat to mere demonstrators. House members planned similar bills, including one already offered that would bring Selective Service under White House supervision. None of the measures, of course, can be acted upon until 1968, when the next session of Congress convenes. Eight Representatives, however, signed a statement urging that Hershey himself be drafted-into retirement...
...discovered by the French, who see things in U.S. movies no one else saw before. The directors who created France's New Wave openly imitated such films from the American past as the westerns of John Ford, the adventure flicks of Howard Hawks, and B-level gangster fray-for-alls of the '30s, like Scarface. French critics who have seen Bonnie and Clyde praised it enthusiastically-an American movie that started out as a film for a French director whose best works were echoes of American movies...
Stepping deftly from the example of Jefferson--who responded to this libel by sending one of the learned French gentlemen a stuffed black panther and a live moose--to the more general case, Commager suggested some of the effects of the fray for American history...
Five minutes later the Bulldogs dead-locked Harvard in the chilly fray, on the play that has bugabooed the generally stalwart Crimson defense in recent games...
...wind up with 1% before it's over with." Yet, whether from hurt feelings or because of his old hankering for consensus politics, the President remained curiously subdued and remote from the fray...