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...well enough to return to quarters. But before the last were out, many of the first cases were back in the hospital. The second time round, their aches and pains and liver enlargement were worse. Many were kept in the hospital as long as six months. Then, rated still unfit for duty, several were sent out of the service on medical discharges...
...mind then; the varsity had trounced Yale, 17 to 0; Smith Halls had captured the interdormitory football crown; and the city of Cambridge was doing its best to prevent the College from seeing the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of "Fiesta," which was reported to be "crude, immoral, and unfit for production." Three policemen were sent to observe the play and report on its fitnss, and all agreed that it was much too harmful to the citizenry to be produced; the three "experts" ordered that it be closed. Another annoyance, an influenza epidemic, drifted into Cambridge, and by early January...
Wisconsin's Senator Joseph McCarthy temporarily stalled Senate confirmation of the promotion of his onetime whipping boy ("unfit to wear the uniform"), Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker, to the temporary two-star rank of major general. Nonetheless, word went out -that the Army, supremely indifferent to Joe's spiteful blockade, plans next month to give Zwicker (already approved by the Senate's Armed Services Committee) command of its 24th Infantry Division in Korea-a job associated with two stars...
...Said Reuther in Detroit: "I believe that Mr. Beck's use of union funds to further his own personal investments is highly improper, inexcusable and morally indefensible." As for Brewster, Reuther said that if 10% of what the McClellan committee heard about his activities is true, he "is unfit to hold union office or any position of public trust." To guard against the occurrence of Teamster-type racketeering within his own United Auto Workers, Reuther announced plans to set up a board of prominent citizens to act as "a public watchdog" of his union's affairs...
There are currently 187,000 eligible 1-A's of age 22 who are not fathers. Nearly 25 percent of them will be rejected as unfit, leaving 140,000 draftable. This means that some 21-year olds will be taken, unless the 180,000 figure is lowered. Some of the available 22-year-olds will join some reserve plan, putting additional pressure on the 22-year age group and cutting further into the 21-year-old group. If conditions continue in roughly the same manner, the draft might be calling on 20-year-olds...