Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Look. Since the start of the Korean war, the Pentagon has had no trouble signing up students for draft-exempt R.O.T.C. Seventy colleges have asked for and obtained units. Moreover, some 140 colleges and universities (e.g., Cornell, U.C.L.A., Louisiana State) now require two years of military training; R.O.T.C. courses neatly fill the bill. No longer permitted merely to train and then pool their R.O.T.C. graduates, the services now must assign newly commissioned officers to active duty. To attract career men and train reservists, each service has added considerable brass to the campus...
...undergo flight training and three years' active duty. (Many cadets were reluctant to fly.) Result: nearly 5,000 of this year's 13,000 graduates will get no commissions, instead have the option of enlisting in the Air Force for two years or waiting for the draft...
...MARINE CORPS accepts some 300 Navy R.O.T C. graduates each June, but trains most (1,100) of its college students in draft-exempt platoon-leader classes, commissions them on graduation after two six-week summer-training sessions...
...Records, which has been fighting a group of rebel stockholders who say that management salaries are too high and hit records too few, finally won its proxy war by a 6-to-1 margin. Decca's President Milton Rackmil said that the man behind all the trouble was Draft Dodger Serge Rubinstein (TIME, Mar. 5, 1947), who had paid for the opposition's proxy solicitors and twice visited Decca trying to make a deal that would give him a voice in company policy...
...occasion, however, the organization has had to work on extremely short notice. The Selective Service Department did not give Chauncey the final decision on whether it wanted the draft deferment test until March, 1951. It then told the group that it wanted the examination ready for administration in late May of the same year...