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...control over his own destiny-barring the prospect of a year's combat in a brush-fire war. Science and the knowledge explosion have armed him with more tools to choose his life pattern than he can always use: physical and intellectual mobility, personal and financial opportunity, a vista of change accelerating in every direction...
...domestic service programs. "Here is a real, positive outlet," says Gibbs Kinderman, 23, who with his wife Kathy, 24, daughter of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., directs a poverty program in Appalachia. Laurance Rockefeller Jr., 22, great-grandson of John D., obliquely justifies his work as a $22.50-a-week VISTA volunteer in Harlem: "Beyond affluence, what?" Answers Co-Worker Tweed...
...Society also explicitly rejected two alternatives to the present Selective Service procedure offered by Secretary of Defense McNamara: the lottery and universal national service. The latter would give a draft-eligible person the option of service in organizations like the Peace Corps or VISTA...
...capable of serving -- about 600,000 men yearly -- are needed. Since over 1.2 million men are capable of serving out of a total manpower force of 1.8 million, another 600,000, McNamara believes, should be offered alternatives to service in the armed forces -- in the Peace Corps, Vista, the National Teachers Corps, etc. They should not be required to serve; in fact, McNamara feels that President Pusey misinterpreted the proposal when he criticized it at last year's commencement. But "my personal feeling is that they have an obligation to serve," he said last week. "I do think it should...
Much can be forgiven a new magazine, and there is very little in the Boston Review that needs forgiving. Exposure to the rather shrill editorial introduction and the back cover ("The Boston Review is on the MOVE... Hasta la vista, sista) suggests that magazines should either say a great deal about themselves or very little; BR hasn't yet chosen between tendenz and taciturnity. When the magazine recovers from a slight touch of editorialisis, and develops a group of contributors that is distinctly its own, it will, in fact, be on the move. Hasta la vista, Charley. And Ferg...