Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frequent criticism of the present Selective Service System is the freedom it allows the nation's 4,000 local draft boards. A federally controlled lottery system would change this, and the President has called for a report on the draft boards to be delivered in December. Perhaps, as Senator Jacob Javits has suggested, the caprices of local-board autonomy could be eliminated by establishing area and regional boards. Data-processing equipment would take the place of subjective judgments by local board members...
...prankishly absurd Yippies, and Davis, the son of a White House economic adviser during the Truman Administration and an organizer for the National Mobilization Committee. Black Panther Bobby Scale came to the Chicago convention almost by chance. He was filling in as a speaker for Eldridge Cleaver, whose parole board refused to let him leave California. The other defendants are John Froines, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, and Lee Weiner, a Northwestern University graduate student...
...HAVE to remind you, ladies and gentlemen, that we get only one guess at this, that we cannot go back to the drawing board if we make a mistake." The speaker, at a White House briefing last week, was a top-level Administration aide. The subject was "Vietnamization," the effort to place ever-increasing responsibility for fighting the war in the hands of the Vietnamese...
...Harvard, on the recommendation of the Board of Overseers, President Nathan Pusey established a new 35-member Committee on Governance that will include eleven students and 18 faculty members. Asserting that it was essential to re-establish "the high sense of mutual trust and confidence that formerly prevailed at Harvard," the overseers charged the reform panel with the responsibility of re-examining the university's decision-making process, which presently rests in a vague, tradition-bound combination of administrators, faculty and trustees-but no students. Among the alternatives proposed by the overseers for consideration: a new university body composed...
Watson said that anyone inconvenienced by living in a temporary barracks will pay only his board fee-on a prorated basis-until he gets a permanent assignment...