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...what the draft situation will be over the next two or three years. Each year approximately 1.2 million men reach the draft age of 18 1/2. In the recent past, about 13 percent of this group has not been drafted and about 22 percent has been rejected as physically unfit. Of the former group, a small percent belonged to the National Guard, but the majority escaped all service...
...pleaded the Fifth Amendment would be put on trial by the union-with expulsion as the penalty if he was found guilty of clamming up to conceal his own wrongs. Snapped Old Firebrand Carey: "Labor leaders who adopt the Fifth Amendment when questioned by a congressional committee are unfit to continue as labor leaders...
...York Times Book Review, ex-Librarian of Congress Archibald Mac-Leish, now a Harvard professor of literature, tipped his mortarboard-with reservations-to Fascist-embracing Poet Ezra Pound and his eleven latest Cantos, composed in the Washington hospital where Pound has spent eleven years as a mental patient, adjudged unfit to be tried for treason in 1945. MacLeish freely admits: "Some of his dissents have been merely strident: his raging at Roosevelt throughout the Cantos sounds as though it had been composed by Fulton Lewis Jr., and his attacks on Churchill and Leon Blum are in the vocabulary...
...American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited. In condemning it, the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency declared: "It dwells almost without variation or relief upon carnal suggestiveness."-The statement is true enough, but there is room for doubt that the carnality of the picture makes it unfit to be seen. The film was clearly intended-both by Playwright Tennessee Williams, who wrote the script, and by Elia Kazan, who directed it-to arouse disgust; not disgust with the film itself, but with the kind of people and the way of life it describes. To the extent that...
Immediate Treatment. For people whose injuries have made them unfit for duty but whose lives can be saved and who can be returned to duty by prompt treatment. Included will be victims of hemorrhage from an easily accessible site, quickly correctable respiratory defects, crushed limbs in which amputation is lifesaving, open fractures of major bones...