Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owners acted in executive session after completing the league's partial draft session. The Southwest Conference produced the two top choices in the draft when the Chicago Cardinals selected King Hill, standout Rice quarterback, and big John Crow, power running fullback of Texas...
Most strident Army performance of the week came from Lieut. General Stanley Mickelson, retiring chief of Army's Air Defense Command. So sharp was Mickelson's original speech that the Defense Department would not let him deliver all of it; the draft, however, had already been distributed to newsmen. Bitterly, the Mickelson text scorned the Air Force, derided the concept of airpower. Said the Army's General Mickelson, echoing a favorite line of the Army's General Gavin: "The Army points the way for America to shed herself of any stigma of the theory of mass...
Morocco's Ministry of Justice is working on the draft of a new divorce law that will strip Moroccan men of the right to shed their spouses simply by repeating "I divorce thee" three times, and bring the law more nearly into accord with Western-type procedures. Polygamy, a delicate subject since the King himself has two wives, will probably be so ringed with further restrictions that it will become for all practical purposes impossible...
...proposal passed by the PBH Cabinet was that integration with Radcliffe would make Brooks House "more effective." It was passed with only one dissenting vote, and Freehling has appointed a committee to draft a petition requesting full Radcliffe membership. The petition will be presented to the Cabinet on Wednesday...
...through the bitter days he kept his own sense of humor intact. "The price of progress is trouble," he once remarked, "-and I must be making lots of progress." The turning point probably came after Ike himself reproved Wilson for saying that the National Guard was a hideout for draft-dodgers during the Korean war. Wilson's wife Jessie promptly cracked right back at the President. She was "indignant" she said. "I think the President should have stood back of Mr. Wilson instead of spending his time commenting on how wonderful Foster Dulles has been." Charlie Wilson, said...