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MAKING IT by Norman Podhoretz. 360 pages. Random House...
...explored in this book, which is subtitled "Thoughts During a Useless Time." Its author, Paul Goodman, is a novelist, poet, essayist, psychologist and social critic whose book Growing Up Absurd gave him guru status with a large segment of American youth. Five Years is a self-analytical journal of random thoughts, jotted down from 1955 to 1960, when Goodman was between 45 and 50 years old. It is a ruthlessly honest confession in the manner of Rousseau: Goodman recounts how he scrounged for food, sex and love while materially and spiritually down and out. During that period of his life...
Membership on these subcommittees would ideally be voluntary, the committee member said. It was also proposed at yesterday's meeting that selection of members of a permanent steering committee or an executive board to replace the temporary committee be made on a random basis...
...only medical students receive graduate deferments, the eligibility pool would shrink slightly--to 1,090,000--a figure still far too large for current draft needs. The most vexing problem facing the President is how to select 360,000 draftees from this pool without instituting a random selection system, specifically forbidden him by Congress. The irony of the situation is that before the new law, the President could have instituted a random selection system without Congressional approval. But now he must either get Congress to adopt a random selection plan before June or devise a stop-gap system for this...
...other system under consideration borders so much on the random that it could very well be challenged in Congress. Known as "random-birth" or "birth-mix," draftees would be chosen by taking all the men born on one of a number of arbitrarily selected dates in each month. This would involve drafting at one time men born on the same dates in all 12 months, not just those born at certain times of the year or months. When shown this plan, General Hershey said it was clearly random, violated the oldest-first dictum, and would very clearly be declared illegal...