Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seniors applying to any graduate schools except medical or law schools will have to achieve scholastic standing in the upper quarter of their class, or else have scored 80 or more on the draft test in order to be eligible for deferment, according to a directive just released by the Defense Department...
Immediately after reading the story, TIME Reader Charles Alldredge of Washington, D.C. sent a bank draft and an order for prints to Escher in Holland. He liked what he got so well that he ordered more. Several of Alldredge's friends became equally enthusiastic and began buying Escher prints by mail order too. Alldredge began plumping for an Escher exhibition in Washington, organized a committee of sponsors to back the showing and talked the Whyte Gallery into a date. Last week TIME was able to report that the show was both a critical and commercial success. Prints were selling...
Kennedy also released the minimum averages for the upper half, two-thirds, and three-quarters of all but last year's senior class, for draft card statistics...
Last year's freshman had to have at least two Bs, one C plus, and one C to rank him in the top half of his class and exempt him from the draft. Three C pluses and a C would place a member of 1956 in the upper two-thirds, while the same grades would put a junior into the necessary top three-quarters...
Besides the money stolen, the wallets contained the students' draft cards...