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Many are just now having physicals as draft boards reduce the backlog which built up while the nation awaited the outcome of the lottery. Since not all the 1-A's with low numbers were in the pool (that is, totally processed) earlier this year, the Pentagon has been forced to dig deeper into the numbers to meet its quotas. While the pool changes each month, the order of call reverts back to number one each month and goes as far as the number set by Washington. For example, the March call was not only for numbers sixty to ninety...
...Army Game. Nixon's vinegar-and-honey approach, which combined the troop call-up and carefully applied judicial pressure with a sincere willingness to negotiate, broke the back of the strike. Though the troops did little to reduce the Post Office backlog, the presence of uniformed (but unarmed) soldiers and military vehicles on the streets of New York convinced the nation and the strikers that the President meant business. To a great extent, the use of servicemen was psychological...
...black Boise Cascade executive, joined Burnett Construction as president last October; Burnett is chairman. Helped not only by Boise Cascade's capital but also by the advantages that a black-run firm has in negotiating for construction work in ghetto areas, he has now built a contract backlog of $25 million. The company has progressed from rehabilitating old buildings to erecting large projects from the ground up. Some 2,500 black craftsmen are employed on Burnett's jobs; he insists that building unions supply him with black laborers, and if they cannot, he sometimes hires nonunion blacks...
Because of tie-ups elsewhere in the East, most flights from Logan were ?? delayed one or two hours-but there was no significant backlog of passengers...
...increasing number of resisters has burdened the government with a backlog of draft refusal cases and slowed the judiciary process. Over 500 people in the Massachusetts district who refused induction since December have not yet been indicted," Ferber said...