Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States had entered into the second war in these young men's lives. Naturally they were worried; older brothers had died in World War II. The headline in The Crimson's 1950 Registration Issue read "University Plans No Drastic Changes To Meet World Crisis; '54 Should Escape Draft Call." And they did. No one in the Class of '54 died on a Korean battlefield. In fact, George S. Abrams writes in the 25th Anniversary Report of his class, "The worst effect of the Korean War for most of '54 may have been the time wasted taking non-substantive military...
...older brothers and sisters experienced while in college. In the early '50s the Korean War anb the battle against American Communists shared the headlines with phone booth-stuffing contests and hula-hoop exhibitions; at Radcliffe the students thought more of the latter than of the former. Though the military draft made headlines and Sen. Joseph MacCarthy (D-Wisc.) sought to label John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History a "red" in January 1954, Radcliffe students of the early '50s conducted inter-dorm song contests and fought off periodic raids by the men down Garden...
Moffett himself concedes it would be hard to enforce and, in fact, is difficult to draft in proper language. But he adds: "It's a choice between this and three-mile lines at the gas stations and shootouts at the pumps, California style...
...force Kennedy to run, dissident Democrats plan a draft...
Joining Ottinger were Edward P. Beard of Rhode Island, Fortney H. Stark of California, John Conyers of Michigan, the only member of the quintet not to back Kennedy, and Richard Nolan, a onetime protege of Vice President Walter Mondale's, who has organized his own Draft Kennedy movement in Minnesota. The group was opposing Carter, Nolan said, "because we feel betrayed. All our hopes and all our aspirations for a better America in 1976 have resulted in disappointment and despair...