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...bones of the fact that he had kept the pressure on the Defense Department and the White House, arguing that B.L.H. should get the award because Philadelphia was then an area of "substantial unemployment." But under a 1954 Executive Order by President Eisenhower, even substantial unemployment is not a valid argument if a domestic company's bid is 12% or more above the lowest foreign bid. B.L.H.'s bid was 21% higher than English Electric's. ODCM Chief Leo Hoegh got around that by arguing that a contract award to B.L.H. was necessary for clear reasons...
...most valid criticism of the draft as now operated is that it is inequitable. Of the nation's 2,200,000 physically fit men in the 18½-to-26-year-old bracket, only 120,000 get grabbed by the draft each year. Thousands of others volunteer, but the fact is that in the skimpy-quota peacetime era it requires little imagination to think up a reason to be deferred, e.g., as a student, a farmer, a scientist or a hardship case. Thousands of 17-and 18-year-olds exercise their alternative right of fulfilling military obligations with...
...American Association of University Professors recently got around to protesting the oath requirement, branding it as "repugnant to our traditions," and urging its repeal by the incoming Congress. The old and valid arguments against loyalty provisions in educational aid maintain that such laws single out members of a specific professional group for unwarranted suspicion, but do not ever accomplish the purpose they seek. True subversives, of course, will have no qualms about signing a loyalty oath, but loyal citizens who sign are then open to what the AAUP characterizes as "the possibility of perjury prosecutions resting on vague allegations...
Since the war, Bender observed, "I have talked to few applicants who really want to live at home. Except for valid special cases, most young men want to cut the apron strings and live at the College." Bender said he was against forcing these students to commute...
...prohibiting "assault" on a federal officer, Ladner was sentenced to two ten-year prison terms. After serving one term, he appealed on the ground that he had fired only one shot and was therefore guilty of only one "assault." Overruling lower courts, the Supreme Court found the plea valid. Noting that the same law makes it an offense to "impede" a federal officer, the court asked: If a man locked a door to keep out several federal officers, would he "commit as many crimes as there are officers?" Obviously not, as the majority saw it. Dissenting, Justice Tom Clark argued...