Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberal record, particularly on issues of foreign policy, welfare and civil rights. But it is far from "left-wing," as his votes on two key issues indicate: he voted for the Taft-Hartley law; he voted against the Brannan Plan. In 1948 he helped Richard Nixon draft the Mundt-Nixon subversives-control bill. The Case record does not follow any party line; it follows the conscience of thinking, independent, careful Clifford Case...
Marlon thought for awhile that he would like to enter the ministry. Talked out of that, he spent the summer of 1943 as a tile fitter in a drain factory (he was turned down for the draft because of a trick knee). In the fall he went to New York to live with sister Frances, then studying painting at New York's Art Students League. After four days as an elevator operator at Best's department store (he quit because it embarrassed him to call out things like "lingerie''). Marlon went to study dramatics with Stella...
...college just make up a list of all the special favors they want and simply put all their begs in one ask-it?" they wondered. At a time when there was still frequent criticism of student deferment from the draft, the academic world appeared to be asking that an exception for students be made in the tax structure. Scholars, in effect, seemed to be asking that their earnings be tax-free...
...sales tax. Unionists, 520,000 strong (in a country of 6,100,000), reacted to that with strikes. Starting in August, copper miners closed down the big mining industry, and government revenues from copper exports vanished. Ibáñez forced the miners back to work by threatening to draft them into the army. Last week, fearing further inflationary walkouts, he decreed a mild form of martial law that empowers the government to arrest its opponents, unless they are Congressmen...
Died. Ken Buck, 22, star end (1951-53) at the College of the Pacific, 1953 co-holder (with Georgia's John Carson, Stanford's Sam Morley) of intercollegiate pass-catching honors, first draft choice of the professional-football New York Giants; of cancer (which he learned he had in March, thought he could lick in time to play football this fall); in Paso Robles, Calif...