Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threaten the party with extinction in China. The party ideological journal Kommunist declared that Mao's policies are "not only a matter of purely Chinese concern" and that they are "doing great harm to the cause of socialism and revolution throughout the world." Kommunist accused Mao of demanding "blind obedience and barrack-room discipline, which turns a human being into a small screw in a bureaucratic machine...
Harold Krents, the totally blind Harvard Law School student who was reclassified 1-A last week, has been told by his local draft board that his case is being reconsidered...
...College (the cost of the building not to exceed 120 pounds, "besides glasse"). But President Dunster carried out plans on a more ambitious scale, and the Society ended up paying nearly 400 pounds for the building. (To some modern eyes, the whole Indian project appears to have been a blind to get a new building for Harvard...
Krents had a II-S deferment all through his undergraduate days at Harvard, although he repeatedly informed his Draft Board that he has been legally blind all his life. "I wanted them to change my II-S classification to IV-F", he said. "But the change they finally made is just too much...
Known as a record setter--first blind person to dislocate his shoulder playing tackle football, etc.--Krents says he "might be the first American soldier captured in Vietnam while looking for the latrine...