Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for the original policy--held at least since World War II--was that national draft legislation states that only individual draft boards are supposed to make a decision as to whom should be deferred, Kennedy said...
...important policy reversal, the Corporation will now allow department chairmen to request personally draft deferments for graduate students in cases where deferment is justified under...
Previously only statements of fact as to nature of work carried on by individual staff members could be sent to the draft boards, and not actual requests for deferment, Sargent Kennedy, secretary to the Corporation, explained yesterday...
...ghettoes, on the campuses, on the city streets on the one side, and the deeds perpetrated by the forces of order in Vietnam, in Bolivia, in Indonesia, in Guatemala, on the other? Can one meaningfully call it an offense when demonstrators disrupt the business of the university, the draft board, the supermarket, the flow of traffic, to protest against the far more efficient disruption of the business of life of untold numbers of human beings by the armed forces of law and order...
...with Peter Fonda, or Wild in the Streets, in which everyone over thirty is deported to campus and given LSD. The drug gets a boost from Skiddoo, in which Jackie Gleason goes out into the world to spread love after inadvertantly licking LSD off something handed him by a draft card burner...