Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago. "I love them very much, and there is no one else to care for them." The irony is that because he has six children Hai is now legally entitled to a deferment. Since they were born while he was in hiding, he cannot get his draft status changed without being arrested as a deserter-which would mean up to twelve months in prison and then front-line duty in an army unit...
...party's old guard does not deny that the new young pols beat them at their own game, but that does not keep them from resenting it-sometimes bitterly and unfairly. Said Rhode Island State Chairman Lawrence McGarry: "McGovern's got draft dodgers going to Miami." The list of party veterans and major officeholders who were shoved out of their delegate seats in Miami Beach reads like a who's who of the Democrats (see box, page 12). Said Delton Houtchens, the Missouri state Democratic chairman who went to Miami Beach as a delegate-at-large...
...Brooklyn. He played stickball, batted an even .000 (no hits in 14 at-bats) in his first year in the Little League. In 1968 he graduated from Harpur College, part of the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he majored in mathematics. Partly to avoid the draft, he decided to become a teacher, working as a trainee in an all-black school in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Today he is on a leave of absence to work on his Ph.D., writing a doctoral thesis on algebraic topology, dealing with the property of geometric figures that, like rubber bands...
Some of the student societies on campus last year showed commercial films similar to those running in local theaters, while the rest continued to run more esoteric or historical films. In May, the Film Studies Council drafted a set of Ground Rules, delimiting student operations to "films of a more educational or experimental nature." Several of the commercial societies helped draft the guidelines, but two societies showing the most commercial films--the Quincy Cinema Guild and Films across the River--did not participate...
...term, before Rehnquist and Powell were seated. The preliminary vote was reported to be 5-2 in favor of declaring anti-abortion statutes unconstitutional. However, Rehnquist and Powell apparently voted with the dissenters to hold the case over for reargument next term, and Marshall, who had already written a draft of the majority opinion, joined them because he thought it unwise to end abortion prohibitions on the same day the death penalty was thrown...