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That's the way injuries have hit the Crimson this pre-season. For starters, the team's top three running backs couldn't play; three centers are hurt; and four--count'em, four--middle guards were out by the end of the scrimmage...
Ever since Jimmy Carter ordered all 19-and 20-year-old men in the U.S. to sign up in July for the draft, in case it is resumed, the question has been: How willing would young men be to answer the President's call? After a preliminary count, the Selective Service System last week gave a tentative answer: 93% of those eligible-3,593,187 out of 3,880,000 -had registered at post offices by late last month. Selective Service Director Bernard Rostker stopped short of calling the sign-up a complete success but said...
...unconvinced by the Selective Service's figures. Said Barry Lynn, head of CARD (Committee Against Registration and the Draft): "I'm not going to call Rostker a liar. I am going to say I'm very, very skeptical." Lynn called for an independent audit of the count, perhaps by Congress's General Accounting Office. It was a challenge that Rostker gladly picked...
...cares? Mostly the civic leaders of Carl Sandburg's city of the big shoulders, who took the news rather badly. If the figures stay the same when the final census count lands on President Carter's desk by the deadline of Jan. 1, Chicago stands to lose one seat in Congress, several seats in the state legislature and up to $75 million in federal revenue sharing. More important, Chicago's civic pride would take a licking. Ever since A.J. Liebling, writing about Chicago in The New Yorker in 1952, coined the putdown Second City, Chicagoans have been...
While Cook County has filed suit in court challenging the preliminary census figures, city officials have begun checking the count on their own. Said Alderman Roman Pucinski, a protege of Daley's political machine, which used to be accused of casting votes for Chicagoans whether dead or alive: "The bodies are there. They are just not being counted...