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...What have you got?" asked Larry Stillman of John Margolis, en route to the induction center...
John Larga failed, again, because of something in his urine. A Czech, who had been in the country for two years and hoped to become a citizen, was rejected because he didn't speak the language well enough. Larry Stillman got his psychiatric deferment. A guy named Louie, a hustler of drugs and women, was judged immoral for the Army. Someone else got out on high blood pressure by squeezing the side of the chair with his free hand during the test...
...injured woman, who asked that her name be withheld, was taken to Stillman Infirmary and x-rayed immediately. No broken bones were found, although she said that the doctor had found a separation of undetermined origin in the lower part of her spine. The lower part of her back was severely sprained...
...built reputations and fortunes on a 12-sign system, dismiss Schmidt's theories as "meaningless." U.S.C. Astronomy Professor Gibson Reaves points out that "astrology is essentially irrational, and to try to give it such a rational, scientific explanation would spoil it for most people, anyway." Buffs like Clark Stillman, salesman at a Greenwich Village occult bookstore, complain that Schmidt doesn't ascribe any "elements" (air, water, fire, etc.) to his new signs or enhance them "for esoteric value" with much mythology. Actually, Schmidt borrows some myths from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, both on Cetus (a monster sent by Neptune...
Some people are going crazy at Harvard. Those who really flip out end up in Stillman or McLean's. But others, not quite mad enough, have to hang around here until they freak out and someone notices...