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...decision to go to the U.N. had been weighed in secret for ten days. There were impressive arguments against it, most notably the likelihood that a Security Council debate might simply become a forum for anti-American tirades and might also force a hardening of the Soviet position. But a renewed appeal for U.N. "arbitration" from Pope Paul VI, coinciding with a cogent memo from Rusk and U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, persuaded the President to try. "It's a slim chance," said a U.S. official, "but one worth probing." Just how slim a chance was demonstrated when...
...escalation of the war in Viet Nam-and the likelihood that it will rise higher-has changed all that. Somewhat abruptly, the draft has become the most urgent problem in the lives of practically every American male between 18 and 26. With the manpower needs of the armed forces steadily increasing and the prospect of future calls running well above 30,000 a month, some thousands will soon be called to serve who might previously have postponed or entirely escaped military service. Across the U.S., young men are once more watching their local mailboxes anxiously for the nation...
...Congressman, as President Johnson urges, should be relieved of the financial burden of biennial elections and of the likelihood that he will be in debt to a few contributors. The President should submit proposals immediately to stimulate more small contributions to candidates and to make meaningful Federal regulations governing campaign spending. His attack on the two-year term, however, is misdirected. Let's keep...
...immunity of members of Congress, disproves the old idea that legal writers make up for dry writing style by logical rigor. He is both dry and illogical. Not only is his defense of congressional immunity unconvincing, but he ignores the deficiencies of legislative self-regulation: the un-likelihood that courts would throw socialists out of a legislature, as the New York legislature did in the 1920's; or Negroes out, as the Georgia legislature did this year...
Johnson and Masters have to explain basic physiology. Often they have to reassure the husband that infertility does not mean impotence. They explain the best timing for intercourse in relation to ovulation and the best position to increase the likelihood of conception. It may take months of laboratory work to pinpoint and correct the cause of infertility. But in at least one case out of eight, Masters and Johnson report, learning about conception and the assurance that something is being done about their problem are enough to start a couple toward parenthood within three months...