Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draft may now hit prospective graduate students at its highest rate since the Korean War as a result of President Eisenhower's recent executive order, a spokesman for the State Selective Service Headquarters said yesterday...
...think that students in engineering, for instance, will have their training interrupted by the draft," Feeney maintained. Nor will the draft necessarily interfere with students in college, he added...
...decree puts childless men between 19 and 25 at the top of the list in the order of men drafted. The ruling also now makes it possible for those who are fathers, or are over 26 to escape the draft altogether...
...older men and fathers could conceivably avoid military service, since the present monthly draft, which varies between 6,000 and 16,000, could adequately be filled by the 200,000 entering the 19-25-year-old age group annually, it was learned...
Although the decree does not affect present draft deferments, the future of college deferments was uncertain last night...