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...greatest virtuoso of them all?at least since Hubert Humphrey departed. "He knows the facts on everything," says Marion?and he can summarize them in a few thousand choice words at a moment's notice. Back in 1961, Javits was orating on an immigration bill that he considered unjust when Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore tried to gain the floor. "Let me finish," pleaded Javits. Pastore looked up at the chamber's high ceiling, rolled his eyes dramatically and moaned: "The Senator never finishes...
...World War II had begun by the time '41 returned to Cambridge as juniors. Another war had started too -- that between Conant, who advocated increased aid to the Allies, and prominent Faculty members such as Pitrim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, who in October, 1939 said, "I prefer unjust peace to a long...
...every member of the class and the War far overshadowed the labor fights, curriculum debates, the tutoring school muckraking, and the Yale games. America would be at peace for not quite six more months, and the Class of '41 would be the first to fight.PITRIM A. SOROKIN 'I prefer unjust peace...
...JOSEPH L. BLOCK, chairman of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., who in 1962 helped break the steel price rise by refusing to go along with the rest of the industry: "The wage-price guidelines are unjust, discriminatory and harmful to the economy. Steel and a few other so-called basic industries are expected to adhere rigidly to the prevailing prices, while thousands of others go their merry way and raise prices at will. The Government's attack on inflation should be through the exercise of proper monetary and fiscal policies. Federal expenditures such as public works should...
This qualification obviously limits the appeal of any proposed reform. By definition, a selective service system involves elements of coercion and arbitrariness. No such system can be comfortable to live with. But the present system is more than uncomfortable; it is shockingly unjust, a scandal in a nation which pretends to be democratic. The injustice has its source in the 2-S deferment, and reform efforts should center on the abolition of this feature. The 2-S deferment means in practice that most of those with the money to go to college do not get drafted. The provision makes...