Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brothers had creditable, if unexciting, war records. At 17, Billy volunteered for the Naval Air Force, spent 2½ years "trying to get into an airplane but washing them instead," came out a naval cadet. Ben, turned down by his draft board because of defective vision, also volunteered, served in Newfoundland with the Air Force and emerged an administrative captain. As a naval lieutenant, ., Henry was stationed at the Ford company, where he taught mathematics to sailors until released from the service to rejoin the company after his father's death...
...Army yesterday announced the lowest Selective Service draft quota in over a year when it issued a call of 23,000 men for the month of July...
...July draft call compares with 32,000 for June 1953 and increases the total number of men drafted or earmarked for induction since Selective Service was resumed in September...
Secretary of Defense Wilson indicated that he hopes to reduce draft calls to a steady 25,000 monthly after July. He explained that this would be possible because there is now a lower rate of turnover in military manpower and because "we are going to try to use more people in the Army now farther up front in combat units...
...Louis Coxe wrote the first draft of Billy Budd. Neither remembers who first suggested it since both had specialized in Melville as undergraduates. After the Experimental Theatre produced the play in '49, they rewrote it for an interested Broadway producer. "We did it in six days over a barrel of Martinis," Chapman remembers with a contented grin. "God, what a wonderful time...