Word: deferments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have to be a bipartisan effort." If that also fails, the nation's most heavily industrialized state will be unable to provide college space for several thousand new high school graduates or treat more than 1,000 retarded children now awaiting state care. It will have to defer badly needed highway construction, and deny the financial aid that its two major railroads need to maintain commuter service...
...noisy, protesting young appear more impatient than ever. They don't seem to want to wait for anything-going steady, or a better world. And yet the ever-lengthening educational process represents a major test of patience. Education is simply another form of what sociologists call "deferred gratification." When it comes to love, Americans of any age seem far less ready to defer gratification. Protracted courtship or drawn-out seduction never seems to have appealed to the American male, for whom Stendhal's celebrated ten-year wait to achieve success with the wife of a Milan shopkeeper...
McNamara has had his jousts with congressional committees before. But never have so many lances been pointed at him at once, and never by such aroused antagonists. Separate subcommittees will investigate 1) McNamara's decision to defer construction projects that he had requested earlier; 2) his plan to phase out two-thirds of the present heavy-bomber force by 1971; 3) all McNamara's research and development projects, present and pending; and 4) his policy of closing or reducing military installations that he regards as surplus. All this will be in addition to the normal annual series...
Since the Korean War, however, the Selective Service law has been amended so that no local draft board is required to defer any student solely on the basis of his rank in class or his score on an aptitude test...
...reply Hershey emphasized that the Selective Service law was amended after the Korean War to provide that no local board should be required to defer any student solely on the basis of a grade on any test or his standing in class or "any other evaluation of that character." He added that this was done to preserve the local boards' authority over draft classifications...