Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editor of his campus paper, the Daily Bruin. All that recalled a familiar routine to Writer Ed Magnuson, who, as a student at the University of Minnesota 18 years ago, was a reporter for the Minnesota Daily. In those days, the most burning campus issue was not the draft; it was fraternity discrimination-both religious and racial. "We tried our best to be impartial," says Magnuson, "but of course the paper wound up flailing the Greeks...
...Senator's intense, freckle-faced second daughter. A sophomore government major at Radcliffe until she took a leave of absence last winter to work in the campaign, Mary is more than campaign froufrou, as she proves at coffee conferences by ranging through the war, the gold flow, the draft ("First of all, eliminate General Hershey") and alternatives to her father ("It's a pretty awful choice"). Ellen McCarthy, 20, will pitch in after her exams at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. The youngest McCarthy, the Senator's self-styled "secret weapon," is Margaret...
...blustery March day in 1966, four young men touched a gas burner to their draft cards and reclassification notices on the steps of the South Boston Courthouse. Well publicized in advance by the students, the happening attracted a large gallery, including several FBI agents. For their draft resistance, three of the youths were sent to prison for up to three years; the fourth, David P. O'Brien, a 19-year-old Boston University freshman, was sentenced under the Federal Youth Correction Act to a stiff term of up to six years...
...Brien took his case to a court of appeals, which upheld his conviction for not carrying a draft card, as required by the Selective Service Act of 1948. However, the court ruled unconstitutional a 1965 congressional amendment to that act prohibiting destruction or mutilation of draft records, reasoning that the amendment, in effect, abridged freedom of speech. In a 7-to-l decision last week, the Supreme Court disagreed and upheld the congressional amendment by comparing the burning of draft cards to the destruction of tax records, also required to be kept by law. "We cannot accept the view," observed...
When newly sworn Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas wrote his first dissent at the end of 1965, the issue involved a minor dispute over a Small Business Administration contract. With characteristic energy, Fortas prepared a meticulously reasoned draft. When it was circulated among his colleagues, two members of the five-man majority found it so persuasive that their view shifted. Fortas' dissent became the majority opinion...