Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Entrollment in the advanced course of either unit entitles student is to ID draft deferments for their final two years of college. After this they are required to serve active duty for two years if. called, and in reserve status for eight years after graduation...
Housing officials hope that all applicants will be placed into the Houses next year. There are approximately 905 vacancies in the Houses at this time but because of the draft and other interferences, more suites probably will be available next fall...
...choice was Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson. There was no doubt that most Fair Deal officeholders looked on him as the heir presumptive. Stevenson still insisted that he is running only for re-election in Illinois, but he immediately began talking like a man establishing his availability for a draft. In a television interview, he was asked whether he would say that he will not accept the nomination. His reply: "I will not say that...
Delegates of 15 nations met in Paris to draft plans for a Europe-wide farm cooperative-that would do for farm produce and dairy products what the Schuman Plan would for coal and steel. There should be a single selling area: no tariffs, no transportation stickups, no currency restrictions, no shortages here and gluts there. All this would mean a central authority, which in turn would mean that each nation would have to yield some sovereignty. There...
Western Allies: Spent ten days drafting identical replies to Moscow. They recognized the propaganda appeal of Russia's offer to the Germans. They aimed to leave all doors open-even though nothing but a cold draft was coming through. They asserted in moderate tones: 1) that if Russia is sincere, Russia should admit a U.N. commission to East Germany to determine whether free elections can be held there; 2) that the Russians fail to say whether unified Germany could conduct its own foreign" policy, could join in various European agencies like the Schuman Plan; 3) that Russia invokes...