Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together a memoir of the middle nineteen-sixties, those years of "Good Day Sunshine" when a peace march could still be a lark and graduate school a respectable alternative. His characters live precariously on the brink of graduation: Bob, a music student who contemplates submitting to the draft as the simplest way to end it all. Kathy, who's convinced that by telling Bob he gave her her first orgasm she's given him the confidence to go on to a brilliant career. Norman, a graduate student in mathematics who, with inordinate sense of purpose, sets himself aflame when...
Since it was established in December of last year, Room 13 has been offering information on abortions, contraception, the draft and medical care...
...prominent coverage in the Crimson have been "confrontations" with the atmosphere of a class picnic. Local radicals have choreographed a series of civil disobedience actions which pose only a trivial threat to illegitimate authority. Traffic was rerouted briefly for the sit-down in Post Office Square; the Cambridge Draft Board and the Gulf offices were open for busienss as usual shortly after the demonntrators left. Surely by no stretch of the imagination could such actions be considered "massive public disorder" which threatens the ability of Nixon, Kissinger and the President of Gulf Oil to rule...
Humphrey's campaign in Nebraska caught fire during the past week, as McGovern desperately tried to stem charges that he is a radical who advocates the legalization of marijuana, amnesty for draft evaders, and free abortion...
...delegates poured most of their energy into a major overhaul of Methodism's labyrinthine system of national agencies. The other emotional issue was a Statement of Social Principles designed to update the venerable Methodist Social Creed and its E.U.B. counterpart. Here the conference cut back a relatively liberal draft version to fairly traditional lines. Where the proposed text said merely that sex is "most clearly" favorable within marriage, the final version avoids any implied endorsement of nonmarital sex. Where the proposed text affirmed that homosexuals are "persons of sacred worth," the conference added an amendment specifying that the practice...