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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Illustrative is the decision on occupational deferments. Occupational deferments have not in fact been ended; instead they are now subject to 4000 separate sets of rules determined by 4000 separate local boards...
...Education, I would urge that the Administration and the Congress consider a system of random selection at the earliest possible moment. With a carefully devised system our nation can confront more realistically its future needs for trained manpower while also maintaining fairness and equity for all who may be subject to call...
WEARING spectacles of the wrong prescription usually results in a headache. Likewise, the near-sighted squint with which In Cold Blood inspects its subject matter only strains the viewer. With meticulous regard for detail the film attempts to relate the facts surrounding the murder of the Clutter family by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. Drawing from Truman Capote's research, the film version of his book reproduces the chilling aspects of this so-called "senseless" crime--the paradoxical motives of the killers, the inability of social conventions to adequately explain the atrocity, and the irony by which the state executes...
...questions are imaginative and provoking: Twice Borges exclaims, "I never thought of that" (a remarkable reaction from a man who seems to have thought of more than anyone else) and goes on to speculate on why verse is somehow sadder than a prose treatment of the same subject, and on what the opposite of a labyrinth (Borges' central metaphor) is. "Borges and Us" is a marked improvement over the days when Island editors asked Mary Poppins' creator, in issue number two, "First of all, Miss Travers, where were you born...
...novel's subject matter has already produced advance sales of more than 40,000 copies. The thought has even occurred to Vidal that it could make a movie. "I showed Myra to Jane Fonda," he says. "She read it four times, and then said, I don't think I know how to play...