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...front-page story in a recent Sunday Times (City Edition, not the Late City) told of President Johnson's plan to allow draftees failing the Army entrance exams to enroll in a voluntary program of rehabilitation. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz stated, "This will be the greatest human salvage program in the history of country." The national report on disqualified draftees noted that fully one-third of the young men examined for the army are let go, "about half," the Times said, "being rejected for medical reasons and the remainder funking mental tests...
Gellhorn also expressed concern about the profession's failure to encourage promising young Negroes to study law. "Many law schools are eagerly prepared to welcome Negro entrants, but applicants for admission are rare." Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz weighed in with the suggestion that one big reason for the shortage of Negro law students is the shortage of opportunities for them in the large law firms after graduation. The legal profession, said Wirtz, is "the worst segregated group in our society...
President Johnson directed Saturday that, starting July 1, most youths be given mental and physical tests once they reached 18. Secretary of labor Willard Wirtz said later in the day, however, that married men and those in school would probably be given deferrals...
...Machinists Union and United Air Lines reached an agreement yesterday morning which headed off a strike scheduled for last night. Earlier in the day, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz announced the settlement of a dispute between the AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the railroads...
...Colonel Willard F. Rockwell, chair man, Rockwell-Standard Corp. and Rockwell Manufacturing...