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Wasted Years. Smith turned to a previously untapped manpower pool: the medical corpsmen who administer emergency care and assist physicians throughout the military services. "The armed forces spend up to $25,000 for training each corpsman," he explained. "A corpsman may have from 600 to 2,000 hours of formal medical training and up to 20 years of experience. Yet, after his discharge, he can rarely find a related health job in civilian life...
...nothing but praise for Medex Robert Woodruff, a former Army medic who helps him provide medical care at Eastern Washington State College. "He has good rapport with the students, who come back often and ask for him," says Gamon. Patients are equally impressed with the work of ex-Navy Corpsman Ronald Graves, a veteran of Marine combat in Viet Nam, who now works with Dr. Marshall Thompson in Davenport. Says one middle-aged patient: "If he's good enough to take care of our boys on the battlefield, he's good enough...
Then after dinner Phil Currier, a former Peace Corpsman in Borneo, once president of the Salina High student council, took the speaker's stand with an urgent yet soft-spoken speech about pollution, ecology, cities, racism and the war: "If you feel as I do, then sign a letter to President Nixon from the class of '60" protesting the war. Some of his classmates applauded respectfully. More than a few muttered "That son of a bitch!" Before the evening was over, Jerry Brewster, a former Marine helicopter pilot in Viet Nam, was circulating a counter-petition headed...
...smashing caused 200 injuries and $500,000 in damage to the Harvard Square area. As elsewhere, student radicals were joined by street gangs for the "trashing." There were 40 arrests. In Washington, D.C., there was little violence but much ugly rhetoric. Said David Otto, 23, a former Peace Corpsman who heads the capital's Moratorium Committee, "Some came in the name of revolution, and there was nothing anyone could do about them. They try to take over everything. The police, the unions, the Government workers-they're against them all. What they want, I think, is a basic...
Appropriately enough, then, Richard Crossman has become a power theorist. The Godkin Lectures glorified the consolidation in the British polity, but they cast a wistful sidelong glance at the American courts and Constitution. "The British need more rule of law, not less." Corpsman wished to clarify the advantages of the federal system and written constitutions. Laws and courts could defend the public from a grasping bureaucracy...