Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Willkie's presidential campaign, was also a poet (My Country) and philosopher. To his brooding, deep-thrusting mind, the exchange with the Red army man summarized "the predicament of the free world." It drove him back to the first values of his existence, and led him finally to draft this book. The Dignity of Man (finished by his widow and several journalist friends after "Mitch" Davenport died last year at 54) is a searching inquiry into the greatness as well as the failures of America. Fear of Nothing. When Communist dictators claim Svoboda as their own, when Communist slave...
Ranking is important for scholastic honors, scholarships, and honor organizations, and also important to prospective employers and for draft deferments, the report said...
...dissenting paper declared that while the majority report claimed that one-point distinctions were meaningful, it did not indicate why they should be made. This report claimed that ranking requested by draft boards and prospective employees is "quite gross." "A system of ranking in quarters, or decides, should satisfy interested out-of-school persons," Talbot's report said...
...know what the final outcome of the Reserve Bill will be," he added, "but I think that the draft bill that we pass will be basically the same...
...draft bill that is now in effect will expire on July 1. It states that all men between 13 1/2 and 26 are subject to draft, and must serve for 24 months...