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...LOTTERY. One of the President's most controversial proposals would substitute random selection for the present system of inducting eligible men by birthdate priority. The House version requires the President to give Congress 60 days in which to veto the change before he introduces it, while the Senate measure retains presidential jurisdiction. Whatever the outcome, the President would still be free to implement his proposal to draft 19-year-olds first instead of the oldest eligibles as at present...
...LIFE OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON by Jim Bishop. 274 pages. Random House...
WHEN SHE WAS GOOD by Philip Roth. 306 pages. Random House...
...Helen Clay Frick has spent her life idealizing his "Christian" memory and devoting his cash to such cultural works as Manhattan's Frick art museum. Thus in 1964, Miss Frick was incensed when she unwrapped a Christmas present: Historian Sylvester K. Stevens' Pennsylvania: Birthplace of a Nation (Random House), which limned her "stern, brusque, autocratic" father as the hard-knuckled "Coke King" who forced Pennsylvania coal miners to toil for $1.60 a day and crushed "the disastrous Homestead strike...
...most pernicious provision in the House bill is the veto power it gives Congress over any national draft lottery, the Free and Impartial Random [FAIR] system proposed by the President. The Senate, despite some apprehensions about FAIR, made no attempt to hamstring the President; the conference committee should follow the Senate's version, and chuck out the veto. It is unlikely, of course, that both houses of Congress would veto the Presidentially sponsored FAIR system within the 60-day time limit set by the bill, even if the House version won out. But the threat of such a veto would...