Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seed" [July 8] is a sad story of a brutal father and of boys who had "the urge to kill." What's next for the boys? Years in jail, probably. Meantime, the Army will draft many other boys who have only a horror of killing; why not make boys like Ray Edwards and Marty Daniels professional soldiers? In the Army, they would have the respect of society instead of its condemnation...
...Navy, from 875,000 (including 200,000 Marines) to 850,000, will maintain combat units at authorized size, keep the Marines at three divisions; the Air Force, from 925,000 to 900,000, will make no cuts in combat outfits. One probable overall effect: a further cutback in draft calls...
Most of the blame lies with the U.S. draft, which furnishes about 30% of Army manpower.* Selective Service law requires that all men scoring ten points (approximately equal to fourth grade) or higher on mental tests must be accepted for induction. During the first five months of 1957, some 38% of the Army's inductees were in the lower intelligence brackets (85-95 IQ), partly because students usually get automatic deferments through college and professional school, often miss the draft altogether. To upgrade its manpower, the Army has drastically tightened re-enlistment standards, tried hard to retrain its misfits...
...concerns itself not with the "timeless, placeless laws of economics" but with practical solutions to everyday problems. Though round-faced Economist Witte regarded himself as "an old-fashioned teacher" who was never really happy away from the campus on which he had studied and taught so long, he helped draft many a progressive law for his state, wrote the Federal Social Security Act of 1934-35, campaigned constantly against colleagues who were so bent on appearing scientific and mathematical that they succeeded only in not being read...
...rhythms of Duke Ellington; the two-beat music of Jimmy Lunsford; Benny Goodman and the importance of his Fletcher Henderson arrangements; the blues-based simplicity of Count Basie; the thin, sparse sax playing of Les Young; the small jam sessions during World War II made necessary by the wholesale draft; the emergence of bebop and the "soul" of Charlie Parker; the wild, Afro-Cubanism of Dizzy Gillespie; the "cool jazz" of Miles Davis; the influence of Woody Herman and Stan Getz; the recent "West Coast jazz," with its use of flutes and oboes, its emphasis on counterpoint and on writing...