Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steady at a slim 2.3%. Bearing the brunt are the 13.5 million out-of-school youths aged 16-to-21 who are looking for a summer job. The Labor Department figures that only 11.5 million of them will find jobs of any sort. One reason is that, despite big draft calls and a booming economy, such perennial employers of student power as construction and retail trades are soft. Even political campaigns, which absorb many young volunteers, are not taking up the slack...
...Harvard summer school student who earlier this year sailed a boat full of medical supplies to North Vietnam will tell bout his voyage tomorrow night at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard Draft Project...
...night patrols have become far less frequent. "Once the policeman was respected," laments McCaffrey. "Now, if he tells a fellow to move on, the fellow asks, 'Why should I?' " McCaffrey also decries "the awful changes in the church-young priests leading civil disobedience, going to jail, burning draft cards." Last week, weary and dismayed, he packed his bags and headed for clean suburban retirement in New Jersey. Taking a final, fretful look at his garish parish, Father McCaffrey sighed: "I suppose I'm an old-fashioned guy with old-fashioned ideas, and the world has passed...
...Colleges are not churches, clinics, or even parents. Whether or not a student burns a draft card, participates in a civil rights march, engages in premarital or extramarital sexual activity, becomes pregnant, attends church, sleeps all day or drinks all night, is not really the concern of an educational institution...
...SPOCK: "I deny that I was part of a conspiracy; I deny that I ever counseled anyone [to avoid the draft]; I feel that all the things that I have done are covered by the Free Speech guarantee of the First Amendment...