Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week as the guest of Governor Louie Nunn at the Kentucky Derby, Nixon had every reason for cheer. At the half mile, he himself was way out in front and could afford the luxury of a fervent appeal to party unity. Republicans must at all cost, he said, avoid the "deep division that would come from choosing up sides-civil war, bloodletting, cannibalism, call it what you will...
Salute to the Tube. To learn how to avoid Viet Cong booby traps and needle-pointed poisoned bamboo punji stakes, infantrymen will be shown eight hours of video tapes on Viet Nam. In a lesson on military courtesv, recruits watch a televised salute and then salute the screen while they are checked by their own sergeant. Altogether, the Army has assembled more than 2,000 TV tapes on such wide-ranging subjects as how to bandage wounds, drive correctly and repair radios. Unlike old training films, which cost three times the $500 budgeted to crank out a minute of televised...
...program is in no way designed to help Business School students avoid the draft," Thomas A. Graves Jr., associate dean of the Business School Faculty, said yesterday. "But we hope it will allow students to complete their graduate education before the military grabs them...
...Apart from Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, Humphrey has history against him; no Vice President has succeeded to the White House by the elective process since Martin Van Buren turned the trick in 1836. Humphrey is undismayed. Despite his relationship with Lyndon Johnson and his manful attempt to avoid the lassitude of his office, Humphrey inevitably found the vice-presidency frustrating and confining. "One of the most awkward offices ever created by the hand of man," he said once. "It is an unnatural role for an active politician...
Twenty-six per cent of the seniors and 16 per cent of the graduates are applying for conscientious objector status, and 34 per cent of those planning to avoid service said they would "contemplate flunking their physical by faking...