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...that he was exempt from the draft because he was a minister of the fanatic Black Muslims. Yet in March 1966 he had proudly listed his occupation as "world's heavyweight champion," styling himself a minister of Allah only last August, six months after he had been classified 1A by his Louisville draft board. The court found the sequence more than coincidental...
Mathematics 1a (416) and Natural Sciences 5 (369) maintained their traditionally high enrollments...
...draft became very real to Gary Wilson last fall after he took a pre-induction physical and was declared a healthy, if fretful, 1A. Like just about every other college student in America, he applied to his draft board in San Gabriel for a 25 classification-the occupational deferment normally granted full-time U.S. students. But the 1A wheels turned faster than the 25; his number (SS-49342561) came up at Christmas, and so did his "Greeting...
...board tells me not to worry," sighs University of Utah Senior John Becker, 22, who has not yet been classified. "That's very comforting, but all the time you know they've got your file in front of them with their little rubber 1A stamp in their hand." Gripes Jeffrey Anderson, 23, a graduating history major at the University of California at Berkeley: "There just isn't any communication between the draft board and the individual. When I settle down with a family, I'm going to see about improving the local draft board system...
...heed him. When inflation winds blow, U.S. consumers do not go on a buying spree but instead forgo big, postponable purchases-such as cars-to save their declining dollars for necessities. On top of that, 250,000 potential buyers have been shipped to Viet Nam, and Stateside draftees and 1A civilians get 4F ratings from finance companies...