Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frederick L. Nyhan, deputy of the Massachusetts Selective Service Board, indicated yesterday that studious undergraduates need not worry about the draft...
Nyhan announced also that the draft call for this month will be less than half of last January's totals...
...Administrative Board said that the present "liberal" policy of draft boards in granting student deferments made the need for the old system unnecessary...
Neither of the experts could determine from the photograph whether the second head was anything more than Michelangelo's own rough draft, but they resolved to gamble that it was complete, and set about removing the top head. "We were scared when we started scraping," De Campos confesses, "because, had there been nothing much underneath and had we beheaded that horse, no one would have ever forgiven...
...National Security Training Commission last summer was told by President Eisenhower to bring order out of confusion in the nation's military draft and reserve system. Headed by Julius Ochs Adler, vice president of the New York Times and an Army Reserve major general, the commission went to work, last week submitted its report. Result: confusion compounded...