Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...application form for conscientious objector (C.O.) status drew criticism this week from draft counsellors at the Divinity School...
...late hits and piling-ons than anyone I've ever seen." It may be true that some Ivy League defensemen couldn't raise a welt on a waterboy, but the pro scouts are flocking to Cornell games, and Marinaro is virtually certain to be a first-round draft pick. Marinaro says he "won't be disappointed if I don't win the Heisman. I feel I'm the best now. but all I can do is put all those yardage figures in front of the men who vote." If yards were ballots, Marinaro would...
Sometimes after nightfall when Johnson gets mellow, he can remember every sight and sound of that day in 1941 when Sam Rayburn got the draft extended by a single vote, how the Speaker gaveled the House adjourned and jumped out of his chair when he saw a couple of opposing Congressmen coming up the aisle to vote...
...Supreme Court. He does not stop at merely opposing the war in Vietnam but goes on to propose "a general amnesty for all those who have stood up against it." And if he can not have his all-volunteer army, he demands a more democratic system of draft exemptions...
...their home, West Street, Mamaroneck, N.Y. This highlight of the social season gathered the "conspirators" together (with the exception of Tom Hayden, who was busy in San Diego making his own plans for the 1972 Republican National Convention) for the first time since their trial ended early in 1970. Draft beer, chips and pretzels were served, and 35-year-old Bobby was presented with a dark blue sweater. After blowing out the seven conspiratorial candles on his chocolate-frosted cake, the birthday boy toasted "all revolutionaries and political prisoners everywhere...