Word: idea
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McNamara's U.M.T. The idea of a lottery in which every draft-age male in the country would have an equal chance of being picked has some advocates. In their view, it would be perfectly equitable: no one would get special treatment, the idiosyncrasies of local boards would be bypassed. But to Hershey, such roulette-wheel selection simply would dodge national responsibility. "A lottery says, I don't know enough to make a proper selection, so I'm going to hide my ignorance behind chance...
Universal military training, which would put every American youth into some kind of uniform, is probably even less popular now than it was in 1952, when the House killed a U.M.T. bill 236 to 162. The military dislikes the idea anyway, for it would work against a strong, dependable regular military service and put them in the business of rehabilitating a great many swept-up delinquents...
Another suggestion similar to U.M.T. -but softer-was advanced by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in Montreal two weeks ago. This idea, by no means original with McNamara, calls for a program under which each American youth must spend a year or so in a national organization of his choice -the military, the Peace Corps, the Job Corps, VISTA or some other public service. Last week, before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, General Hershey pooh-poohed the idea as too expansive and too expensive. Since no fewer than 1,800,000 youngsters come of draft age each year, he seemed...
...began, as all great ventures must, with an idea. Cerebral, bespectacled Polish Emigré Czeslaw Bojarsky found himself in postwar Paris with an architectural engineer's degree, a distinguished war record, a wife and child to support-and a language barrier that barred him from practice. He tried making shoes, inventing an electric razor, singing in a national radio contest. Nothing worked. Then, as he later told the judge, "I suddenly remembered the theory of my professor of political economics at the University of Danzig. He said that a man who lights a cigar with his bank note...
...Specialty. But Gourdine is a persistent man. After earning his doctorate in engineering science at Caltech in 1960, he worked as a physicist in private industry for four years, vainly attempting to interest his employers in developing a practical EGD generator. In 1964, after failing to sell his idea, he rounded up a handful of fellow scientists, raised $200,000 and founded his own company-Gourdine Systems, Inc. He is already producing laboratory EGD generators for use in college and high school demonstrations, and has licensed Foster Wheeler Corp.-an industrial boiler manufacturer-to build EGD generators for industry...