Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nixon's April 23 decision to abolish H-A occupational draft deferments will upset the plans of 200 to 250 Harvard students, according to John B. Fox '59, director of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans...
Tarr discovered the shortages after he succeeded Lieut. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey as the head of the draft on March 20. Tarr has given two possible reasons for the deficiencies. He said that...
Curtis Tarr. the new Selective Service director, has increased monthly draft calls through the month of July because local draft boards have fallen 20 per cent short of their quotas so far this year...
Others fell down on the job of arranging physical examinations for potential draftees under the lottery system. Local boards gave physicals to men whose lottery numbers did not make them immediately vulnerable to the draft, while neglecting those men whose numbers made them liable to early induction, he said...
FRED W. HAISE JR., 36, lunar-module pilot, might have been a member of the press corps covering the flight of Apollo 13 if not for the draft. A native of Biloxi, Miss., he studied journalism at Perkinston Junior College, a two-year school, and looked forward to a writing career. Instead, faced with induction, he enlisted as a naval aviation cadet. "Like most kids at that age, you kind of jump into things before you really think about it," he said. Whatever his original thoughts, he quickly became hooked on flying. After 2½years as a Marine pilot...