Word: drafted
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McCarthy helped end the career of the Wisconsin Senator. Fourteen years later, St. Clair represented Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin during his trial in Boston for conspiracy to encourage draft evasion. More recently, he represented the Boston school committee in its lengthy attempt to avoid desegregation of the city's public schools. Explains St. Clair: "My politics have nothing to do with my professional representation...
Kissinger played a key role, too, in the year's most significant foreign policy achievement: the negotiated withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from the nation's debilitating involvement in the Viet Nam War. However tardy, the settlement allowed 587 American prisoners of war to return home, the draft to be suspended and the domestic strife that had inspired a rebellious counterculture to be eased. It did not, however, achieve a true peace for Viet Nam itself and at year's end fighting continued almost unabated...
Vince Lombardi would have loved the football class of '74. The college players concluding their undergraduate grid careers this winter are an uncommonly rugged group. TIME'S annual poll of professional scouts to determine the athletes who will be most sought after in the N.F.L. draft has turned up an abundance of intimidating talent. The way the pros saw the season, the best players were linemen and linebackers-big rough performers schooled in the grunt-and-groan tradition that Lombardi refined to savage perfection at Green...
...State, 6 ft. 9 in., 268 Ibs., and (2) JOHN DUTTON, Nebraska, 6 ft. 7 in., 248 Ibs. Viewed as the second coming of Bubba Smith, the huge Oakland Raiders (former Baltimore Colts) defensive end who crunches quarterbacks like crackerjacks, Jones figures to be the pros' No. 1 draft choice this year. With 4.7 sec. speed in the 40-yd. dash, he is "frighteningly intense," say the scouts-a "real door jam" against the offense. He led Tennessee State to an undefeated season this year (TIME, Nov. 12). Button is the man "who takes the play...
...spring of the same year students demanding academic freedom captured the University of Athens in the first violent expression of opposition to the junta. The demonstrations were crushed by the police and special legislation was passed which entitled the regime to draft dissident students into the army. Approximately 100 students were drafted at the time. The regime then turned its attention to an abortive navy coup and efforts to legitimize its pretense to the Greek people...