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Lyndon Johnson now has before him for signature a law just passed by House and Senate requiring that all federal juries be picked at random from rolls that fully reflect "a fair cross section of the community" without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin or economic status. Since Johnson requested the bill, there is little doubt that he will sign it most happily...
UFOs-IDENTIFIED by Philip J. Klass. 290 pages. Random House...
...Universal. Most tragic, Welles was sent in 1942 to South America to film a color documentary shortly after the completion of Citizen Kane; after Welles had shot thousands of feet of film, RKO withdrew financial support, recalled Welles, and put his uncut footage into the vaults. For years unidentifiable random shots from the film, It's All True, turned up as stock footage in Latin American thrillers, the only Welles color footage thereby becoming scattered and hopelessly lost...
...HOLOCAUST by Nora Levin. 768 pages. Crowell. $10. WHILE SIX MILLION DIED by Arthur D. Morse. 420 pages. Random House...
...Department can institute either of the two plans without Presidential action. A very high Pentagon official said last week that he will make no changes because the plans are "administratively unfeasible." Senator Edward M.Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) will this week propose a comprehensive revision of the draft law, including random selection. Hershey said last week that be could have a lottery working three months after Congress had approved it. The man who could this year push through Kennedy's bill is the same man who killed random selection last year: L. Mendel Rivers (D-SC), chairman of the House Armed...