Word: memberships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council assumed that everyone who is eligible will be drafted next year, which GSAS did not. It arrived at its estimate by subtracting the number of veterans, fathers, and physically ineligible students from the total male membership of the senior class that plans to attend a graduate school next year...
...first comes the doorman, a 300-lb. bearded ex-bouncer who checks membership cards. Next there is a one-story trip up in a leather-padded freight elevator; then out into the enormous main Factory loft, with its 30-ft.-high steel-trussed ceiling, 54-ft.-long bar, sea of dining tables and minuscule dance floor. Out back is another barroom, with four pool tables (the one covered in red felt is for ladies), barber chairs and church pews for the onlookers and oldtime coin machines to play while waiting. The men's-room graffiti are considered so choice...
...Jimmy Galanos, Financier Bart Lytton, and Fullback-turned-Actor Jim Brown, who tells friends he feels at home at The Facto ry, proves it by rarely missing an evening. As for The Factory's founders, they have their own soundproof inner sanctum-soon to be opened to the membership at large-which is at present the one place where Factory-goers can converse without shouting...
Bundy advised students to bide their time for now, preparing for a career connected with government. But he cautioned those who planned administrative or political careers to avoid arrogance. Rulers must always keep in mind, he said, their accountability to the general public, and their "sympathetic membership" in the public...
Apart from some impressive detective work on the riots, there is little new or exciting in the report. The ideas are hardly original. But what is remarkable is the tone taken by the commission, whose membership includes a Southern police chief, two representatives, two senators, an industrialist, a labor leader, a Republican mayor, and, as chairman, a Midwest governor...