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...traditional federal system may be incapable of dealing with the obstructionism of Southern state and local officials over civil rights questions, Nicholas Katzenbach, deputy U.S. attorney general, said at Boston College last night...
Speaking at the annual B.C. industrial and Commercial Law Review banquet, Katzenbach said a system which left the individual to enforce his rights against the government was "tolerable" only because of the assumption "that public officials will comply in good faith with these rights as interpreted by the courts...
...Katzenbach's happiest operation is the 22-year-old U.S. Armed Forces Institute, a mail-order education factory in Madison, Wis. Proud product of World War II, it has now enrolled more than 5,000,000 students, distributed more than 44 million textbooks. For $5, the shopper can pick any of 6,400 courses, from elementary through college level; if he completes the first course, the rest are free. College-level courses (now the majority) are provided directly from cooperating colleges, but the colleges are still sticky about credits for nonresidents. One captain has taken enough courses...
...make every officer a college graduate (about 65% are) and every noncom a high school graduate (about 73% of all enlisted men are). While they sit 80 ft. underground, in ICBM launching capsules, Air Force officers now spend most of their time studying for master's degrees. Katzenbach has stirred the Joint Chiefs of Staff to such interest that now "a big, fat committee" is hard at work relating education to overall strategy...
...help streamline the military, Katzenbach has worked up a new systems management school, helped the Navy start a computer institute to teach the art to all ranks. To educate the military about its impact on society, he has designed new U.S.A.F.I. courses that relate military and civilian technology back to 1750. To teach soldiers "what society thinks of them," he set up another course on 19 war novels, from Stendhal's The Red and the Black to Jules Remains' Verdun. "You sure are educating us," says one of his majors, who has read six of the novels...