Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who choose to wait out the draft, Dupuy pointed out, "You take this gamble, and if you lose, you may have your active duty call come in your late twenties . . . with a three year Ready Reserve obligation continuing until your mid-thirties...
...coaches the N.Y. Knickerbockers, and last week was still complaining because the Philadelphia Warriors had draft rights to Wilt as of 1959 even before he went to Kansas...
...finished their active training before college, see great disadvantages in serving 71/2 years in the ready reserve. Like those who do not matriculate, the college student who wants to remain in good standing with his unit must attend 90% of his reserve drill sessions or risk vulnerability to the draft...
...President signed the bill reluctantly, however, and immediately announced he would seek its revision during the next session of Congress. One of his objections concerned the Act's failure to authorize the drafting of men into the reserves if volunteers did not fill quotas. Congressmen had claimed that this proposal came dangerously close to Universal Military Training, insisting on a voluntary recruiting program. But if legislators really want to enact provisions for only a small standing army, they must devise a system which is either less voluntary or more attractive for potential reservists. As matters stand now, the Reserve Forces...
Last summer, instead of kicking the machines, Alvin and Joseph E. Doherty, one of the union's business representatives, asked Industrial Engineer Hauer to draft an experimental course that would make electronic technicians out of the union's semiskilled machine-tenders, the most vulnerable targets of automation. With the help of Donald B. Levinson, a Hughes Aircraft electrical engineer, and RCA Electronic Technician Joseph Schoen, Hauer settled on a night curriculum. The class will meet twice a week for four years, start with the simplest math problems but eventually lead the students through basic courses in radar, physics...