Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strict childbearing, he intervened for us, pleaded for fewer spankings and more parental affection. But now that we are getting a grown-up version of those spankings- Clubbings, gassings, jailing- Dr. Spock's political interventions in our behalf are futile. When he spoke in defense of draft resistance, he too was indicted...
...that judges and juries be given the power to ban works which they find shocking or revolting so that children, his primary concern, will learn healthier attitudes toward sex and learn to sublimate aggression. Spock's faith in the judicial system, bolstered by his acquittal of conspiracy to encourage draft resistance, probably prompted the idea to make judges and juries art critics...
...fumbling before the word was given. The former president (1963-69) of Wisconsin's Lawrence University, a school respected for its academic standing, Tarr can claim rapport with the young and considerable sympathy for their problems. While his own children will probably never have to worry about the draft -he has two daughters, twelve and eleven-Tarr as president of a small university knew firsthand the anguish the draft can cause. "I think I can talk with the young," he said. "I'd at least like to be as close to young people in the service as possible...
...credentials are impeccable, including an unsuccessful run as the party's candidate for Congressman from California in 1958, when he was vice president of his family's farm-equipment company in Chico. A World War II draftee-he ended up as technician fourth grade -Tarr knows the draft system from the bottom up, without having been a professional soldier like his predecessor Lieut. General Lewis Hershey. After the war, Tarr received an A.B. from Stanford University and a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He returned to Stanford for his Ph.D...
Careful Enough. The talents most needed by the director of Selective Service are tact, discretion and a sense of fairness. In his later years, Hershey, who was draft chief from 1941 until last month, became a symbol of the arbitrary imposition of punitive regulations on the young. Tarr seems careful enough to avoid being labeled doctrinaire. For example, on the question of Richard Nixon's proposed all-volunteer army-about whose virtues Congress is split-he has scarcely said a word, suggesting that a matter so important should be the decision of the President. The Administration has taken soundings...