Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education (C plus grades) to get ready for a coaching career, dutifully plowed through such classes as Ballroom Dance, Fundamentals of Basketball, and Wrestling, got creditable B's in advanced biology and history courses. In his senior year in 1955, Huff had made All-America, was the third-draft choice of the Giants...
...month, der Alte had received at least two letters from President Eisenhower, one from Premier Khrushchev and several from President de Gaulle, and hugged them to himself. He treated Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano highhandedly, ordering him to draft communications, then editing and sending them off without bothering to let Brentano know the final results. While the Foreign Office remained ignorant, one man continued to share the Chancellor's secrets: State Secretary Hans Globke, the indispensable confidential clerk who-his enemies never let him forget-25 years ago wrote the official commentary on the Nazis' racial laws. Last...
...jailed. He defied the court that disqualified him as Governor, won his appeals but lost the G.O.P. 1936 primary, ran successfully as an independent. In the Senate, Maverick Langer excelled in filibusters, fought lend-lease, the U.N., NATO, the Marshall Plan, the Taft-Hartley bill and postwar draft...
...different occasions that he does not choose to run in 1960. "I will not seek the Democratic nomination this year," he said emphatically on a New York TV show last week. But he carefully leaves a door ajar, and he has told friends that if the Democratic convention should draft him for the nomination he would not refuse. No one who talks to Stevenson doubts that he will stay clear of the fight; his old bruises from the rough and tumble 1956 state primaries still pain him. But granted the purest of motives, he has chosen the wisest possible course...
...deep feeling for J. J.: "Nothing but contempt." Captain Astor, a Navy officer in both World Wars, regarded J. J., said Brooke Astor, daughter of a Marine Corps general, as "the most useless and worthless member of society, and he despised him because he was a slacker and a draft evader...