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...federal law against advising anyone how to avoid the draft, but the resistors have not been deterred. They are quite open about what they are doing. Ray Mungo, a member of the group, describes their activities in these terms: "We are unabashedly using every means possible to inhabit, retard, and be dishonest with the Selective Service System...Our position has been philosophically anarchistic. That is, we make no moral judgements about why a kid wants out. If he wants out, we get him out the best...
...Scott College to coed Emory, insists that "at Scott, when you got out into the world you went berserk," while at Emory, "I act more ladylike-even my language is better." At Christian College, a women's school in Columbia, Mo., Student Susan Hoffman declares: "Girls' schools retard, stunt and warp your social growth and maturity. Every time you see a boy, it takes about a week to recover." Why then do students choose an all-girl or an all-male school? Answers one Vassar junior: "I knew Vassar was all-girl when I came here...
...They wouldn't let me in unless I did it. I'm sorry, son, if I've embarrassed you; I don't want to retard your career; but I had to see you, and they only let blind men on the team. So I did it. I did it with a fire-poker...
...Stanford medics hastened to ex plain that they recognized that "as a result of President Eisenhower's heart attack, his devotion to golf and Dr. Paul Dudley White, we are now accumulating fairly substantial evidence that physical activity will prevent or retard certain types of cardiovascular disease." And "almost everyone agrees that graded exercise will enhance recovery from most traumatic and surgical conditions." What the two were arguing was that widespread and unquestioning acceptance of exercise has impeded the sort of research that would help give doctors the knowledge that they need to prescribe the right activity...
...Bonapartist tradition. The child was only four when his father was sent to St. Helena, but it was already clear, says Stacton, that he was "preternaturally intelligent, as precocious as Macaulay or J. S. Mill." In Austria, however, he was placed with tutors who were instructed to retard his development as much as possible. After a few years of repressive treatment, the boy became withdrawn and watchful. At 16, he developed tuberculosis. At 21, ignored by his mother and surrounded by doctors who tried to make him eat 64 live snails as a pick-me-up, L'Aiglon died...