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They were drafted for the most part because local boards thought it unjust that Johnny Jones down the next-door neighbor was entering his third year of draft-exempt graduate study. And the drafting will continue until Selective Service leaders outline a uniform, nationwide policy on exemptions. Local boards will argue that the immediate injustice done to Johnny Jones and his family outweighs the long-range national benefits of highly trained scientists. England, mindful of the critical need for advanced scientific talent, gives its graduate students blanket deferments...
This is twice as old as the proved age of his next-door neighbor, the primitive man from Folsom. Said Anthropologist Hibben: "This is not geological guesswork. It's an exact, mathematical method of dating. A great many skeptics did not believe man existed in the New World prior to 10,000 years ago. We now have incontrovertible proof...
...About 28 million "proletarians"-miners, factory workers, clerks and mechanics. A typical worker's home: one small bedsitting room (for a man, his wife and two children), with kitchen and toilet facilities shared with the next-door neighbor. The average worker's wage buys him an austerity diet of bread, fish and potatoes (fresh meat is a luxury), and such occasional relaxations as a ticket to a soccer match or a jugful of cheap vodka...
...after summing up his life with Rosa: i) he had served her breakfast in bed for 20 years; 2) she kicked him while he was scrubbing the floor; 3) she smashed her glass when he put water in her gin; 4) she accepted love letters and liquor from his next-door neighbor; 5) he was so terrified of her that he frequently slept on the floor -"an unpleasant experience in winter...
...good-looking, good-for-nothing roughneck (Ralph Meeker), he comes among a widow who had married unwisely for love; her two daughters, one beautiful and besought (Janice Rule), the other bright and coltishly adolescent (Kim Stanley); her boarder, an old-maid schoolteacher with an unmatrimonial-minded beau; her next-door neighbor, a middle-aged woman chained to an invalid mother. The roughneck and the beautiful girl fall hard for each other: there is a climactic scene where they dance slowly and sexually, while the other women look on-awed, envious, aroused. The fellow is sent about his business...