Word: rule
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...occupational deferments are not so certain. Since local draft boards will still have wide discretion in granting job exemptions on the basis of community and defense needs, most of the men presently deferred may still escape service. They will not have automatic deferral, however, and instead of one standard rule from Washington, noted Senator Edward Kennedy, there will now be 4,000 rules laid down by the 4,000 different local boards. There is, however, one certainty as a result of last week's edict. Hundreds of thousands of men and their families-hitherto affected in only small ways...
...against Rockefeller for excellent election-year reasons. Public opinion, expressed in letters, telegrams, phone calls and editorials, overwhelmingly supported Lindsay's basic argument that an illegal public strike cannot be tolerated lest more strikes be encouraged and that Rockefeller's takeover scheme violated the tradition of home rule. Lindsay was not exactly blameless. He had not made adequate advance preparations for the strike, and his abrupt demand that Rockefeller mobilize the National Guard to collect the garbage presented serious problems.-But the Lindsay position, based on sound principle, had the public relations virtue of offering dramatic resistance...
Even that formula leaves a large group of potential captives unaccounted for. By previous rules of war, terrorists were regarded as the exception; in Viet Nam, they are the rule, waging a widespread, vicious campaign against a civilian population. Thus they unquestionably forfeit P.W. status if captured. But what, short of an Instant firing line, is to be their fate? The U.S. has decided that to be certified as a terrorist, a suspect must appear before an officer's tribunal (including one military lawyer). Then and only then can he be handed over to the South Vietnamese for civilian...
...Simple Rule. In the California case, Security Insurance Co. of New Haven had refused to settle the claim of a tenant who had fallen through a faulty wooden staircase. The victim later developed a severe psychosis. The landlady, who had to pay up as a result of the insurance company's refusal, was forced to sell off her assets. She became indigent, eventually lost her health and attempted suicide. She sued Security, and the California Supreme Court finally upheld an award that covered the excess she had had to pay over the insurance limit, plus damages for the mental...
...admirals and generals. Similarly, the original Henry Ford resembles Napoleon Bonaparte because both became so surrounded by yes men that they were unaware of structural problems. Howard Hughes is not unlike Charles I of England in the sense that each was the victim of inevitable change from personal rule to group rule. Charles lost his head. Hughes sold his TWA stock for $546.5 million...