Word: draft
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General Caldwell claims that "morale is far and above what it was during the days of the draft," and the evidence at Fort Jackson seems to back him up. The rates of courts-martial and AWOLs are down. I never talked to more soldiers who did less bitching. In fact, no one even seems to swear any more. I heard exactly one four-letter word. On a rifle range, a sergeant turned on a complainer and shouted, "That's tough shit, soldier!" The lieutenant in charge of the range looked shocked. He grinned at me and said, "Well...
...Hemingway's permission is required to see any of the material, except selected documents for which she gave a blanket release. These include the pencil manuscript of the draft conclusion of "A Farewell to Arms," and a typewritten draft with ink corrections and inserts, of the foreword to the Fitzgerald section of "A Moveable Feast...
Interviewed on November 2, a month after Smith received the first package of Maguire documents. Al Pierce, public relations director for the Kennedy Library Corporation, flatly denied that any member of the corporation had received advance information of the draft statement...
Oliver Brooks, head of the Harvard Square Development Task Force, said last night that if the Kennedy Corporation had men the original draft, other interest groups should be given access...
Even before Ford moved on tariffs, Senators Henry Jackson and Edward Kennedy had sponsored a Senate resolution to postpone the tariff increase for 60 days; in the meantime Congress, if it has the will, would be able to draft its own energy-saving program. In the House, Pennsylvania Democrat William Green offered a similar motion to defer the hike for 90 days, which the House Ways and Means Committee promptly voted, linking the deferral to an increase in the federal debt limit to $531 billion...