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SYLVIA KUSHEL Manhattan Sir: Getting rid of "Jewish Power" in the schools of New York will solve but one of poor John's ten plagues. Who will the other nine scapegoats be, pray? C. M. GLASSER Miami Beach Sir: Your gloom about New York reminds me of the Londoners who thought it was the end when the Hilton appeared on the Hyde Park skyline...
...latest figures on foreign trade have dispelled some of the gathering gloom. The Commerce Department reported that on a seasonally adjusted basis, exports exceeded imports by $282 million in September, triple the meager August surplus. The September bulge lifted the trade surplus for the first nine months of 1968 to $834 million. If the pace continues, predicted Assistant Commerce Secretary William H. Chartener, the U.S. should achieve a $1.5 billion surplus this year...
...gloom of one White House aide over the outgoing Congress was understandable. "You can't get blood out of a turnip," he said, "and the 90th Congress is a turnip." Not that the future is any more promising. "As things go," he added, "the 91st may be a stone...
...Lifting Gloom. What happened? The explanation lies mainly in an unexpectedly sharp reduction in monthly draft calls (the September quota was 12,200, compared with 44,000 last May) and the sluggishness of the Selective Service bureaucracy. Local draft boards did not begin reclassifying deferred students until June. A month's delay is allowed for appeals. And, while physical exams usually take another month to process, all physicals were suspended in July and August on grounds of a paper work and funding squeeze. Some boards are also waiting until present deferments run out, most in September and October...
Although the gloom over the fall term is lifting, graduate deans are fearful of a slippage of students during the year as draft machinery catches up with them. Since boards can allow students to complete any semester they start, the real impact could be felt at first term's end. But unless manpower needs suddenly increase, grad schools may find themselves inconvenienced rather than crippled...