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Harvard gave honorary degrees also to John H. Finley '25, retiring as Master of Eliot House; and two Law School alumni, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz and Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the United States Supreme Court...
...story on the Riot Commission Report I was quoted as saying that "the Administration consists of nothing but a bunch of patio liberals." I call your attention to the fact that his phrase was used not by me but by Secretary Wirtz, who doubtless had in mind Ivy League university professors much more than the hard-nosed liberals of the Administration who have lately been so busy putting out fires in Washington. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Director, Joint Center for Urban Studies
STUDENT deferments themselves are of dubious validity. Secretary of Labor Wirtz has testified that they are unnecessary for maintaining an adequate supply of skilled manpower. They should be abolished entirely--but only as part of comprehensive draft reform, such as the Marshall Commission recommendations or Senator Edward M. Kennedy's reform bill now pending in the Senate...
Paying the Debt. So does everybody else. Black Hawks President William Wirtz calls Hull "the best public relations man the N.H.L. ever had." He should be; he works hard enough at it. "Every professional athlete," he says, "owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment." Hull rarely does-whether it means visiting a Chicago hospital to say hello to ailing Black Hawks fans or hanging around the arena until the last autograph is signed. Last month in Toronto, he shook hands and signed autographs...
...Besides Wirtz's judgement, Johnson made his decisions because of widespread criticism of "pyramiding." Graduate students in the past have been able to pile one deferment on top of another until they were exempt from service because of age. This inequity has been a focal point for the non-ideological criticism of the draft. Johnson's primary goal is known to have been halting that criticism and secondarily alleviating the inequities. Although he seems to have achieved the first, he has only reversed the second, placing the military obligation disproportionately on the formerly-privileged group...