Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directive requiring future National Guard recruits to undergo six months of full-time military training-a plan that the politically influential Guard opposes as a hindrance to enlistments. "You know," he volunteered, "the thing was really sort of a scandal during the Korean war. It was a draft-dodging business. A boy of 17 to 18½ could enlist in the National Guard and not be drafted and sent to Korea and fight...
When the Minneapolis Lakers made lanky Terry Rand their second-draft choice and offered him a $7,500 contract, Groom and Dee made a somewhat different pitch: Did Rand want to study law? Well, Denver U. had a fine law school, and an executive trainee with DC Trucking would have time for classes as well as practice sessions and some 30 games of basketball a season. A trainee would get $400 a month salary plus all the fringe benefits, including a sizable bonus. And who knows? Rand might like Denver Chicago and go on to make transcontinental trucking his career...
Everyone hopes that the current troubles add up only to a short-range problem. Barring political complications, the Suez Canal should be open for shallow-draft tanker traffic by March 1, will probably open completely by mid-May. Oilmen are also hopeful that the sabotaged Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline traversing Syria from Iraq to the Mediterranean can soon handle 40% of its former capacity. But it may still take months before the flow of oil is back to normal. Even if the canal clearance proceeds on schedule-and the Egyptians do not decide to keep it closed after...
...Army National Guard, with no formal training requirement, does seem to be a soft deal. A reasonable tightening of active duty requirements, as the NGA itself says, is in order. The Defense Department now allows high school students to put off active service until graduation, and still maintain the draft exemption granted to men who enlist between the ages of seventeen and eighteen-and-a-half. This allowance is the same granted in the six-month reserve program. But this means that those enlistees who go to college must drop a term, and those beginning careers will also be seriously...
...National Guard joins because he believes it is the easiest way to meet his military obligation. No one wants to give up six weeks of his year unless he is protected from the longer conventional arm of Uncle Sam. Mr. Wilson stretches words, with some justification, and calls this "draft-dodging...