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...unfairness that would result from exempting men in some fields of graduate study and not in others, as well as the accompanying distortion that would result from the tendency to select draft-deferred fields of study...
...McGill University. "I came here to get out of that middle-class bag," remarked one, "and look where they've got me now." But Logos, the local underground paper, harbors a number of the hippier American exiles; it is presently staffed by the usual long-haired contingent and a select few who look like advertisements for Brooks Brothers...
Coupled with the new law's abolition of graduate deferments for all but medical students, Johnson's inaction left the Defense Department with 1.1 million eligible men and no way to select its quota of 300,000 except by descending age-sequence: oldest men first. With that procedure, two-thirds of the Army's recruits starting in June would be college graduates. A Defense Department official said that the Army could not "tolerate" such a high proportion of old, recalcitrant, unmalleable...
...There is only one permanent solution to the entire problem. The insurance industry should be permitted to regulate the reproductive processes of the country with a program of controlled breeding that would eventually produce a select group of drivers and claimants who are basically honest, responsible, and who have respect for the rights of others. With a mass of people who could retain their common sense, manners and self-respect while driving, we would encounter little difficulty in settling claims under the current fault system...
Nepotism remains particularly virulent. Kennedy cited the case of a recent U.S. effort to bring Vietnamese war veterans to the U.S. to study at American universities, and learn about the country. "We asked the government of South Viet Nam to select some qualified men," Kennedy recalled. "The list they gave us consisted mainly of relatives of government officials." So a new list was demanded. "But all the new applicants," said Kennedy, "had been made to promise a percentage of their scholarship payments to the officials who chose them...