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...volunteers would go into the draft pool, but only for two years. Anyone not called between 18 and 20 would then be free. Details, like how to choose within the pool -- whether to defer students or have a lottery -- could be settled by whoever wanted to settle them...
...Whoever lands the job will have to deal with a stronger and more influential Council of the Realm and Cortes, which have up to now been mostly Franco rubber stamps...
...bottom with forbearance. Lew Opler, a sophomore in Lowell House, spent a month of last summer experimenting from the bottom. On Aug. 21, he knocked on the door of Richmond Recording, one of New York's biggest music publishing houses, and asked the receptionist if he could see whoever was in. He was introduced to the general manager and handed him a carefully-assembled tape of twenty original folk-rock songs. The general manager clicked on the tape, listened for perhaps ten seconds, and said "That's nice, but it sounds too much like Peter, Paul, and Mary...
...often the "victorious man of violence." Toy manufacturers fill the Christmas counters with toy guns and war games. Even Superman is unhealthy fare: "the embodiment of racial superiority, race pride, race prejudice." Explains Wertham: "No dark-skinned or dark-complexioned or not-so-tall-or-so-full-chested youngster, whoever he is or whatever he achieves,' can measure up to the white Superman.'' The adult, too, is everywhere assaulted by ideas that take violence for granted, that brutalize and desensitize Americans to the value of individual life. In this sense, writes Wertham, "we are the victims...
...Whoever was leading the Red Guard purge was getting nervous about the enthusiasm of his charges. Editorials continued to advise "reason" rather than violence in Red Guard attacks on the "capitalist-bourgeois monsters" and suggested repeatedly that "rectification and production" must go together. The fall harvest is just around the corner, and China's leaders are already advising the Red Guards that they must go to the farm for the good of the nation. But how they gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've ruled Peking...