Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduating high school seniors, the once-traditional spring/summer struggle to get into college-any college -appears to have gone the way of the draft and campus demonstrations. With fall sessions at some schools only weeks away, the National Association of College Admissions Counselors reported last week that there are still about 500,000 openings for freshmen and transfer students at colleges and universities across the country. The figures mark the second straight year of declining college enrollments. California alone has at least 40,000 vacancies. Even in New England, some 25,000 places are going begging, although the area...
...concluded the staff of the Senate Watergate committee last week after probing illegal contributions made to the 1972 campaigns of Democrats running for President. In its draft report, written by the Republican counsel, the staff said the investigation of Democrats was made to "rectify any misapprehensions that the work of the staff was myopic or that miscreants were found only among those endeavoring to re-elect President Nixon." But far more examples of Republican skulduggery were uncovered. Indeed, the report cited only two instances of questionable practices by Democratic Nominee George McGovern's campaign: neglecting...
Both Chestnut and Joseph Johnson, an official of the Mills campaign, refused to testify under oath before the committee, invoking the Fifth Amendment against selfincrimination. Mills declared that the draft report was "distorted" and leaked "to smear me." Humphrey said the report on his campaign was "filled with innuendoes and inaccuracies" and pointed out that it had not yet been considered by the seven Senators who make up the committee. But they could scarcely dispute the staffs conclusion: "It is not the Republican Party which is in need of remedy but rather the process by which we nominate and elect...
...Provencal Jewish lineage, Milhaud fled the Nazis in 1940. Throughout World War II he taught at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., then shuttled between Paris and Mills until 1971. All the while he indulged his vast range of musical interests, dashing off finished pieces in one pen-and-ink draft without a piano...
...Chairman William J. Casey, formerly head of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Under Secretary of State, complains that the Jackson-Stevenson restriction would hinder the bank's ability to compete in a fast-moving global credit market where time is money. The House has yet to draft an Ex-Im bill, but opposition to the bank's recent policies is even stronger there than in the Senate...