Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college students who took the draft deferment test last spring, 37% flunked, will be liable for service whenever their draft boards want them. ¶ After studying the compulsory education laws of 48 nations, UNESCO announced that British and Tasmanian children are required to spend more time in school (ten years) than any others. Next: U.S. children, who in most states spend nine. Last in line: Indonesian children, who don't have to go to school at all. ¶ The University of North Carolina, overwhelmed with protests, changed its mind about exiling its Negro graduate students to end-zone seats...
...other sporting events." ¶ A congressional committee, picking up where it left off last summer, called more witnesses in its investigation of monopoly in baseball. Main targets: 1) the reserve clause, which binds a player to one club until he is sold or traded; 2) the player draft, which allows the majors to snatch Pacific Coast Leaguers for $10,000. ¶ A federal grand jury in New York where the International Boxing Club has its headquarters, was trying to 1) find out whether a fighter can get a big city match unless he signs one of the I.B.C...
Teague has sent questionnaires to schools all over the country asking for suggestions, and has in the course of a year's investigation accumulated mountains of material. "We hope to draft a bill," he said, "which will serve veterans of all future wars as well...
...they will not receive appointment to the General Staff. At least the Allies have agreed upon the structure and size of German rearmament, but there is another hurdle. If voluntary enlistments fail to satisfy the quota, they will have to be supplemented by some form of conscription. To draft, the Bonn government would have to alter its constitution, incurring a possible cabinet change...
College graduates who do not like the prospect of being caught in the draft will have a chance to join the U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidate School on November 5, 1951 or before...