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Continuing in a statistical vein, he noted only one-tenth of one per cent of eligible Peace Corps men have had trouble with their draft boards. If that happens, said Vaughn, all the Corps officials--and in one case even the King of Nepal--write to the boards and General Hershey saying "you can't do that." This policy has been successful, he said...
...similar vein, the Rev. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church in America, warned his pastors last week that "unless a massive improvement of the lot of Negro ghettos comes quickly," the outlook is for "more destructive and bloody uprisings that are no longer going to be confined to the ghetto areas, but will be carried into white racial areas." Noting the nihilistic mood among many Negroes, Fry added: "The present situation is comparable to Samson when he destroyed the Temple of Dagon and himself along with it. Like him, many black brothers, blind...
This is Joyce at his worst, in his plush, provincial "poetic" vein, which even the captain of the Joyce industry, Dr. Ellmann himself, delicately refers to as a "rather anemic style." And Giacomo gets no better...
...normal. Now it fell within a few hours to a low normal. In an effort to keep the count from dropping fatally close to zero, the hematologists centrifuged eight pints of fresh blood to separate the white cells and infused an estimated 25 billion of them into an arm vein. Even then Washkansky's white count did not rise. Destruction of cells was obviously continuing...
...Draft policy, as Gen. Hershey likes so frequently to point out, has a great deterrent impact on all men of draft age. Selective Service has made much of the 2-S deferment as an inducement to higher education. Presumably Gen. Hershey now sees his recent statement in a similar vein, as a means of discouraging student protest against the military...