Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting of faculty and students in the Astronomy Department resolved yesterday by a substantial majority to reject the revised Draft Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities as submitted by the Committee of Fifteen...
Lafitte returned to the U.S. in the 1930s. He first came to the attention of the authorities in the early 1940s, when he failed to register for the draft and was sent to Ellis Island to await deportation to France. While there, he saw a chance to ingratiate himself with the law by becoming an informer. He won the confidence of some racketeers who were being held on the island and offered to carry a message to their fellow gangsters in New York. Instead, he carried it to the Government...
...group of M.I.T. students, after analyzing the results of the recent national draft lottery, have claimed that the drawing was not random and impartial...
...group added up every draft number that occurs in a particular month, dividing that total by the number of days in the month...
...conceded that because of the small sample size, a reasonable disparity in monthly averages could be expected. In fact, the average monthly draft number varied from 225.8 in March to 121.5 in December...