Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nominee, Agnew was out working for his man?who was then New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. "Nelson Rockefeller," he said again and again, "is the man best qualified to be President." In response to "the ground swell of public opinion that I have seen developing," he sponsored a draft-Rockefeller organization, flying around the country in a Rockefeller-chartered plane to sing the New Yorker's praises. He was still singing when Rocky pulled out of the race on March...
...DRAFT Girls and Boys Together...
Holy Amelia Bloomer! The draft, says Manhattan Attorney Stephen Fine, is illegal because it calls up boys and ignores girls. Seeking to quash a draft-evasion indictment against James St. Clair, a 19-year-old Fordham University undergraduate and antiwar activist, Fine startled Federal Judge Dudley Bonsai in New York City by arguing that the present law makes "an invidious discrimination based upon...
Before the address, McCarthy people will hold a rally on the Boston Common featuring speeches by Michael Feber 2G, recently convicted of conspiracy against the draft, and George Wald, professor of Biology and winner of the Nobel Prize...
...Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, undiplomatically suggested that he could work very well with George Wallace as President, Humphrey took even that small opening to say-with an eye to the young voter-that a Humphrey Administration would hire a new man to guide the draft...