Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since local boards are required by law to grant deferment to men whose activity is "in the national interest", they enjoy wide discretion in granting 2-S status. During the Korean war, they inducted students who were in the bottom quarter of their class, but made exceptions for students pursuing degrees in physics, engineering and other sciences...
Local draft boards may refuse to give deferments to undergraduates who are in the bottom quarter of their class if the present military build up continues through the next six months, the Massachusetts director of the Selective Service System said yesterday...
There will be a boatroom, and also a workshop for year-round maintenance of the boats on the bottom floor of the boathouse. The upper level will include a committee room, lockers, and an observation deck...
Meanwhile ABC, which closed the gap on the competition for the first time ast season, momentarily dropped out of contention again, primarily for riding too long with fading favorites. The network was caught with seven of the bottom 13 Nielsens, including the eight-year-old Donna Reed Show, 13-year-old Ozzie and Harriet. With the early-season tide running against the teen scene, the two segments of Shindig are being cancelled, and Ben Casey's slide to 73rd seemed to indicate that the doctor series are sickening unto death. Even ABC's Peyton Place may be past...
...Laboratories sends man to evaluate hall's sound with new space-age computer. Machine says major problems-lack of bass, uneven distribution of sound, fluttery echoes-are largely corrected. Critics say machine has flipped circuit; their ears hear otherwise. Musicians say now it is like playing in the bottom of huge barrel. Conductor George Szell, after conducting at hall for four weeks, describes panel's contribution: "Imagine a woman, lame, a hunchback, cross-eyed and with two warts. They've removed the warts." Schuman decides back-to-work...