Word: pools
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...rural southern island, working as a railways bureaucrat. There he learned the trick of office consensus, if only to keep the trains moving. Twice he was sent to China as a railways adviser during the Japanese war there, and during World War II served as director of a motor pool. He also contracted a serious case of typhus, and while recuperating read an article on the passivity of the Asian masses by U.S. Author Pearl Buck that changed his way of thinking. "Reviewing the past of Japan," he says, "I felt there had been something essentially wrong about our approach...
...Times' correspondent is correct and sources in Washington indicated last night that he is, the commission will propose that draftees be selected at random from a pool of 18 to 20-year olds. According to this account, all men who pass a physical and mental test would be put into the pool. Those not drafted could be sure they would not serve, except in a national emergency...
This went on and on for the whole afternoon. Marty Chalfie set a Penn pool record in the 200 butterfly, with Doug Walther second. Bob Padway and Dick Sacks took the 100-free, Bragg and Bob Hughes copped the 500-free and Buzz Cummins subbed for mononucleosis-ridden Bob Corris to win the 200 breaststroke...
Guests play golf on Mrs. Post's private, nine-hole course, or the championship course at the Seminole Club. Visitors can also swim in Mrs. Post's pool, at her private beach, or at the hyper-exclusive Bath and Tennis Club. At night, there is often a square dance, and though the music stops at 11 p.m., guests are free to borrow one of the hostess' limousines and cruise into town for frugging at O'Hara's until dawn...
...students by putting them all in the same pickle vis-a-vis the draft? First, what is the real relationship of the two groups in the situation described above? Making selection procedures for service more "equitable," doesn't allow for equity in service, Drafting students will increase the manpower pool (advantageously in an increasingly technical army), driving more ghetto people to the front. And most of the students' parents will be confident that their children will get the "safe" jobs...