Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There also is little doubt that there's been a qauntum jump in the volume of this work in the last three or four years--partly because of the draft, partly too because students are a bit more alert to possibilities like VISTA or the Peace Corps. The present vogue is to apply to at least ten medical schools and House Masters find their desks piled high with requests for recommendations from alumni two or three years out of college...
...those who said they would refuse service, 26.5 per cent said they would leave the country, 11 per cent said they would go to jail, and 9 per cent said they would remain here but "attempt to avoid the draft...
Krents had a II-S deferment all through his undergraduate days at Harvard, although he repeatedly informed his Draft Board that he has been legally blind all his life. "I wanted them to change my II-S classification to IV-F", he said. "But the change they finally made is just too much...
...Local Board 10 has not upset Krents particularly. He does hope the Army will give him some choice of mission: "If I go, my ambition is to be a bombardier. Then it wouldn't be too bad being a pilot either. I bear no ill feelings to the draft board whatever...
When the meeting was over, the two groups agreed to form a joint committee to draft a new constitution. The committee will meet this week and will try to have a revised constitution ready for Administration approval...