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...signing a blue card included in their registration envelopes, they gave the Registrar's Office unrestricted permission to furnish their grades to local draft boards. There had been no previous announcement that they would have to make the choice at registration...
Shortly after the murders, Capote was propelled to Kansas, a region that is as alien to his spirit as Mars, by the scarcely original premise that any truth exhaustively explored can furnish better story material than fiction. He dogged the story off and on for six years. A diminutive, eccentric and lisping presence on Midwest territory, whose citizens at first scarcely knew what to make of him, Capote commanded the attention and ultimately the respect of everyone he approached, including the killers. His memory stored scores of interviews, which he set down later in 6,000 pages of notes...
Thus all students in the Boston area receive with their applications a letter which ends: "I shall be glad to furnish you with any additional information you require, or you may write to the National Director, Dr. Hans Rosenhaupt. Sincerely, H. Ronald Rowse." Three personal pronouns in the first thirteen words. Of course, you will mail your application directly to Professor Rowse, and the fact that his address is "Mathematics Department / Pearson Hall" reminds you that you are corresponding with a scholar, not an administrator. Moreover, around the time you receive your Wilson application forms--but under separate cover...
Ideally no board in the country would exhaust its pool of 1-A manpower or change the criteria it uses for classification before any other. A board, for example, with only 20 eligible registrants left who are not students should not be required to furnish more than 20 men until other boards are also forced to dip into their student population...
...Administration, Frankel wrote, fears that publication of this information would "rekindle a bitter debate and furnish new ammunition to its critics." Officials are correct, no doubt, in their expectation that the testimony would cause at least some adverse reaction...