Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...director of both of these humorous one-acters. Adaptation, which Miss May wrote as well, has the ironic viewpoint that life is a game played on the contestant. In Terrence McNally's Next, James Coco gives a fine performance as a potbellied, middle-aged businessman summoned for the draft through an obvious computer error...
...approval did not come easily. It took four years of intricate negotiations, amid resentment among the nuclear have-nots that the U.S. and the Soviet Union had agreed privately on a draft and then presented it as a fait accompli to the other nations represented in Geneva. The Senate was about to consider ratification last summer when the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia revived cold war suspicions and soured hopes for cooperation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. As campaigner, Richard Nixon called for a delay in ratification until feelings had cooled. As President, he pressed the Senate for approval...
Rare Step. As a result of the court's decision, the Government now expects a wave of appeals. Among the cases that some lawyers think may have to be dropped because they involved illegal eavesdropping are the convictions of Cassius Clay on draft-dodging charges and of Dr. Benjamin Spock on conspiracy charges. Even Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, who is serving time for jury tampering, may be entitled to a new hearing...
After the cancellation, Pell said, "Graduate students thought they were going to be drafted and pressed the panic button. But when they saw that everyone was not called up, pressure to get into uniform and beat the draft was lessened...
Benka, who now weighs 275 pounds, is by almost any standards a big man. But, he says he would still like to put on a few more pounds. He's six pounds short of getting a draft deferment...