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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since equipment has to be requested several months in advance of the departure date, procrastination by potential travellers could cause the cancellation of some flights...
...counsellor's first job is to see if the person is eligible for one of the 13 Selective Service deferments. If not, Hunt recommends a multi-issue approach for several months before the probable induction date: make a claim for conscientious objection (even if it is unrealistic it will waste time and tends to lessen the jail sentence if you eventually refuse induction), begin seeing a therapist and complain about your fears of entering the army, engage in anti-war activities, write a series of indignant and inflammatory letters to your draft board...
Superiors of contemplative societies attribute the defections to what they term today's "Peace Corps mentality"- the desire of many young Catholics to serve God by good deeds in the world rather than through a life of prayer. Another problem is that the monastic orders, most of which date from the Middle Ages, have been slower than most other branches to adopt the reforming spirit of the Second Vatican Council-although they are beginning to do so. Last year the Trappists modified their centuries-old tradition of silence, now allow monks more freedom to speak under certain circumstances...
...drill rig had to be transported by barge from Peru, dismantled, then dragged across the machete-cleared jungle. It took three months to move the rig from river port to drill site-a mere 20-minute hop by air. Since that early experience, virtually everything has been airlifted. To date, helicopters have transported about 80,000 tons of cargo and 131,000 passengers to and from the Orito field. But even with air support, it takes four days and 300 helicopter trips to shift the specially designed drilling rig from one site to another, five miles away. Mechanical failures have...
Louis Heren, chief Washington correspondent for the Times of London, brings this geriatrics report up to date in a brisk spot checkup on the U.S. political system, loosely paralleling the classic study performed in The American Commonwealth (1888) by another sympathetic Englishman, Lord Bryce. Measured by the age of its continuous governing institutions, Heren judges the U.S. to be the second oldest country in the world; only Britain is its senior. Despite its perpetual self-image of newness, the country is really "a mature, almost ancient land...