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...Background: In accordance with the section 4-G of the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, the National Security Council has for some time been considering the advice it should render to the director of the Selective Service System with respect to occupational and graduate student deferments, after giving specific consideration to the needs of both the armed forces and the civilian segments of the population...
...compensating automobile-accident victims [Jan. 26]. Only lawyers with a vested interest in automobile-accident litigation fail to discard the "central myth" that auto accidents can be avoided and that recovery must be founded on fault. The lethal nature of motor vehicles and the sheer weight of their numbers render accidents inevitable, divesting them of purely private concern-the subject of litigation predicated on negligence...
...haunting image that Wyeth captured in Christina's World was inspired by an upstairs-window glimpse he had of her, then aged 55, picking berries in a field outside. But to render it was not easy. For months he painted only the landscape and Christina's own house in the background, finally asked her if he might sketch her, drew her arms and hands. "I was so shy about posing her, I got my wife Betsy to pose for the figure," Wyeth confessed. The painting, finished in 1948, was sold to Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...twelve-year-old. Adding that six cities were already copying the Dallas law, he asked that it be thrown out. If it is not, he said, it would be an "intolerable burden" on the film industry. The court will hear no further argument on the subject, but will render a decision some time before recessing in June...
...State Department and AID, we are victims of the disease that Senator Fulbright has diagnosed as "the arrogance of power." And we have come to feel that they are more right than wrong, although of course there are many Volunteers whose ability to adapt themselves to the culture render them immune to such generalized criticism. The more deeply we examine ourselves the more clearly we realize that we are part of a culture whose pride in itself contains, as a corollary, contempt for others. Our role in this country is a demonstration of that trait: semiliterate in its language, nearly...