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...Defer graduate students until they have completed the full academic year. Under the present system, they are eligible for induction at the end of the term in which they are drafted...
...openly backed the middle course, which Nixon himself is likely to accept. Its principal advantage is that it does not require a dramatic increase in the space budget at a time when the nation is under pressure to meet serious social needs. Moreover, it will allow the President to defer a firm commitment to go to Mars until 1976, or the last year of what might be a second Nixon term, without hurting chances of making the 1986 target date...
...larger figure would have been easy to justify. Now it was tricky, and he had to calculate the risk on the battlefields, the tolerance of dissent at home, and somehow strike a balance. At week's end the summer White House in San Clemente said that President Nixon would defer his decision on the cutback until he returns to Washington next month...
...cowboy Wayne would defer self-knowledge for moral achievement and devote his life to justice for the very local folk from whom he is hopelessly estranged. He is one who has managed to translate his alienation into a noble life style. He is our existential hero who dares to burst out of his lifeless anonymity and assert his ideals in that longed-for reality of time and place. The Wayne cowboy is the us who happen...
While Nixon's relations with Congress have sometimes been clumsy, he won his toughest congressional battle to date when the Senate narrowly went along with his request for funds to start deployment of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile system. Though he had originally planned to defer tax reform for a while, he was happy to claim some of the credit for the historic tax bill passed by the House last week...