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...crises; all the grave questions were yet to be satisfactorily answered and trust was yet to be restored. But the true American new year begins each autumn with the end of vacations, the recall to jobs and schools, fresh starts on the ordinary business of life, the re sumption of friendly routines...
...blocks from the Michigan state capitol, Governor George Romney's new head quarters - formally dubbed the "research center" - clearly had nothing to do with state business. The working hypothesis, of course, was that the Republican presidential nomination was within Rom ney's reach. However logical that as- sumption might seem, it was being undermined with empirical assiduity almost half a continent away in New Orleans...
...Defense Department official questioned the professor's figures and the as sumption that the enlistment rate would rise with an increase in salary. Friedman replied that the surest way to see who was right was to raise pay and watch what happened...
Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, now 72 and head of the selective-service system since it started, doesn't think it makes much sense to change policies now. "We have to start with the as sumption that American policy presumes a college graduate is better prepared to be a citizen for all reasons than a nongraduate," he says. Turning the statistical tables on his anti-college-deferment critics, he says: "Look at the people who are serving. Who are they? They're most likely to be the middle-class and upper-class person. Those denied a chance...
Servant With a Song. Whether the center can do it any better remains unproved. Some church leaders are critical of what seems to be its blithe as sumption that God endorses everything about the Negro freedom movement, from Martin Luther King's S.C.L.C. to LeRoi Jones (last spring the center's entire staff and student body dropped everything to march at Selma). Moreover, while its 127 trainees have unquestionably been shaken by their experience there, some questions about the center's relevance remain: not all ministers are summoned to be worker-priests, and there is a vital...