Word: burnering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ralph Gates, Radcliffe director of buildings and grounds, said his staff has made some improvements. "We have weatherstripped some windows, added fans to the heating ducts, and increased the size of the oil burner," he said...
...punished only if they create a "clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree." Miller and his lawyers insist that burning a draft card endangers no one except the burner. They point out that all the information on the card-and much more-is also on file with the draft board. Besides, the new law is redundant: even before it was passed, another law made it a crime to be in "willful non-possession" of a draft card. In short...
...sounded like a trip from Sodom to Gomorrah. Before he sailed from the U.S., Evangelist Billy Graham, 47, had ticked off quite a list of sinners inhabiting his native land: "The beatnik, the rebellious youth, the price-rigging executive, the draft-card burner, the pregnant high school girl, the dope addict, the bribed athlete" and a host of others. Behold, things didn't look any purer to Billy when he arrived in London to begin a month-long crusade. "To read the papers and magazines, you would think that we were almost worshiping the female bosom," he said...
...about the same. Still, the Negro, often economically and socially deprived at home, frequently finds the modern Army a haven; his re-enlistment rate is 49.3% compared with 18.5% for whites. "That uniform gives prestige and status to a guy who's been 100 years on the back burner," says Jack Moskowitz, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for civil rights and industrial relations...
...Harbors, Minn., and raised in Syracuse, has a considerable reputation as a skillful lyric poet. He taught English and Latin at Brooklyn Prep and theology at the Jesuits' Le Moyne College in Syracuse, where one of his students in 1963 was David Miller, the arrested draft-card burner. Since 1964 he has been an associate editor of Jesuit Missions magazine, a pleasant job that gives him plenty of time to travel and write...