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...ALTERNATIVE" JOBS. Many members of the class of '71 either do not want a "real" job right away, or do not want one that will lead to a conventional career. This is especially true of men facing the draft???about one of every four graduates this year. Those with low lottery numbers have spent most of their extracurricular time and energy trying to figure out whether to go quietly, join the National Guard, become C.O.s, develop ulcers, cut off a finger, go to prison, go to Canada or just freak out. Careers are not their immediate concern...
...nation, TIME correspondents found that the size and vitality of the M-day turnout exceeded dispassionate expectations. Even in the Midwestern heartland, reported Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark, "so many of these folks?far from being professional liberals or agitators or youths simply trying to avoid the draft???were pure, straight middle-class adults who had simply decided, in their own pure, straight middle-class way, that it was time for the U.S. to get the hell out of the war in Viet...
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