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...From either side, it was an ornamental point in the city's stark grid, a recognizable feature amidst its towering but all-too-featureless walls. But five years ago, the 59-story Pan Am Building was built just south of 45th Street, blocking off for all time the vista south from Park Avenue...
...Johnson said that former Administration programs such as Vista, appointment of White House fellows, Presidential scholarships, and employment of young people in government had been aimed at aiding and involving young people...
There also is little doubt that there's been a qauntum jump in the volume of this work in the last three or four years--partly because of the draft, partly too because students are a bit more alert to possibilities like VISTA or the Peace Corps. The present vogue is to apply to at least ten medical schools and House Masters find their desks piled high with requests for recommendations from alumni two or three years out of college...
...over by then either. They will all be gobbled up. Draft quotas are soaring. The seniors will not have a strong draft union behind them, backing them up, because (I must remind you) the war is over. So agonize, everyone, and go join OCS and ROTC and VISTA and PC and all those other capital letters. And those of you who still won't go, you will be hustled off to jail. Only no one will listen to you now. You are alone now. Everyone is listening to the false poets of peace and looking at themselves in the puddles...
Draft boards are more sympathetic to VISTA volunteers than in the past, he added, "but there is no guarantee you won't be called back for induction a year after they give you a deferment...