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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the Arlo Guthrie Book. 95 pages. Amsco Music. $2.95. A letter about love to his draft board, his eighth-grade report card, pictures of Arlo with his father (the late Woody Guthrie), pictures of Arlo singing, words and music to his songs-especially Alice's Restaurant-all provide delectations and deliriums for Arlo admirers...
...worked in strange and wondrous ways. It was arbitrary, erratic, and unpredictable. The disposition of thousands of lives was enigmatic, inscrutable for mere mortals. You heard directly contradicting cases of IVF qualifications, of C.O. is won and lost, of prosecution of resisters. The moods of your board-members, the weather on the day your case came up the length of your hair, and most important. you finances were all factors that played on your draft situation. You couldn't know anything until they came to your case...
...gives us a good indication of our chances for induction. Ever concerned with our psychic well-being the SSS has "reduced" to one year our liability and has tipped its hand on how badly it wants us. But the fine print effectively destroys any new sense of security. Any board can proceed as far down the date-ranking as it chooses. And if you do manage to escape your year of prime liability, you are shuffled into a "secondary pool" of eligible I-A's until age 26 (35 if you've held a student deferment since...
Liberal Faculty members at the meeting spoke out against this slighting. After President Pusey saw that he could not prevent the Faculty from speaking out, he agreed not to appoint Harvard representatives to the Cambridge Project policy board until the Faculty has debated the matter. The Faculty will discuss the Project at its January 6 meeting...
...chairman of admissions, he encouraged geographical distribution and diversification in selection of students in the university. Besides working on Harvard admissions, he served as chairman of the College Entrance Examination Board from...