Word: draft
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Hoover told the committee, which was considering an appropriation to expand the FBI, that followers of Philip and Daniel Berrigan, the priests now jailed for destroying draft records (TIME, Aug. 24), planned to "kidnap a highly placed Government official. The name of a White House staff member has been mentioned as a possible victim...
...summoned to Stalin's dacha after a day of hunting with other members of the Soviet hierarchy. "While the trophies of our hunt were being prepared for the table," recalls Khrushchev, "Stalin told us that [Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von] Ribbentrop had brought with him a draft of a friendship and nonaggression treaty and that we had signed it. Stalin seemed very pleased with himself. 'It's all a game to see who can fool whom,' he said. '[Hitler] thinks he's outsmarted me, but actually it's I who have...
Plunkett figures to have the pro scouts hanging all over him throughout the winter. "He could play for the pros right now," says the Dallas Cowboys' Gil Brandt. "He'll undoubtedly be the first guy selected in the draft." Far from resenting the publicity heaped on Plunkett, his teammates regard him as their personal property. "If anyone ever got by me and hurt Jim," says Offensive Tackle Bill Meyers, "I think I'd turn in my uniform." After cinching the Rose Bowl bid, Stanford lost its final two games -a letdown that the players regretted because...
According to Francis M. Bator, professor of Political Economy, ways will have to be invented to channel public funds to private institutions while "keeping the independence and integrity of these private institutions." Bator helped draft Harvard and Money...
...with "racial relations" and are described as "too sensitive to be the object of public perusal." One thing remains clear here in this affluent Western New York city, regardless of the immediate outcome. People here have for the first time had to confront the issues of the war, the draft, and racism, in a way that will not easily be repressed. Eight very serious young Americans are so deeply concerned over the course their nation is taking that it may cost them 38 years of their lives...