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...elite. Its 179 members-most of them chairmen or presidents of great corporations-can usually get the presidential ear; President Johnson last week spoke with them twice. But the private group is far less important for the occasional advice it offers the Government than for the effect its public consensus has on the nation's business psychology. Last week the council elected a new chairman, whose name, face and words will be before the public in the months to come while he acts as spokesman for the nation's top businessmen. The man: William Beverly Murphy, 57, president...
...FULLBACK: Tucker Fredericlcson, 21, Auburn, 6 ft. 2 in., 221 Ibs. The consensus: "The best running back in college ball." The pros count on him for those short yardage situations, say he is strongest banging away "inside where the running is toughest." Better still, he can protect his quarterback on passes. "This kid is a bone-crushing blocker," says one scout. "He'll cut you in half with his shoulder...
Emerging from his Texas talk with President Johnson last week, Defense Secretary McNamara purported to see some light on the horizon. "At last," he said, "we have a civilian government, a government that gives some indication of being able to develop a consensus among the hard groups in the nation and move the nation ahead to a more effective response to the Viet Cong guerrillas who are attacking and harassing the people ... So I think that today, compared to a month ago, we can look forward with greater confidence...
Some doctors now argue that admission should be governed entirely by medical boards, without interference from lay judges and juries. But lawyers fear that even harmless neurotics might wind up in institutions that are still primarily geared to restraint. The consensus is that involuntary admission should be extended to nondangerous persons only where hospitals are fully equipped to treat early symptoms. On the other hand, state hospitals are allowed to discharge patients without court intervention. In many places, nondangerous patients who succeed in going over the hill and staying free for a year are considered discharged, on the theory that...
...evaluation, then, is already underway. We are probing towards a consensus, trying to make Kennedy's faults stand out as distinctly as his virtues...