Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bobby was a football player at heart. As a freshman he was still playing tailback in Coach Dana X. Bible's conservative single wing. He was just getting the hang of college football when the draft started to worry him. He and Doak joined the merchant marine, but the war was over before they ever got to sea. Bobby went back to Austin while Doak went to S.M.U. On the first Saturday after they got back, they were opponents on the football field. Walker ran 50 yds. for one touchdown; Layne pitched passes for two. (Final score: Texas...
...bring Italy its promised treasures. No one thinks that Enrico Mattei, who stands in well with Italy's political powers, is about to topple from his perch atop the Italian oil industry. But in Italy's Chamber of Deputies there is increasing talk of reviving a buried draft of a proposed law that would authorize E.N.I, to farm out part of its Po Valley explorations to foreign oil companies with equipment and money to make...
...draft program, allowing men including to cuter college to serve actively for only six months, was recommended to the Defense Department yesterday by the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities...
...proposal was based on a previous Defense Department plan to draft some men for only six months of active duty and seven and a half years of active reserve duty. These men were to be chosen...
...order is also not applicable to law and medical schools. Medical students have long received special consideration, and law students are considered "undergraduates" for purposes of the draft, because most have not received college degrees before beginning law training...