Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot be a famous racing name (Man o' War, Citation), no matter how long that name has been out of use. With all those restrictions, it was hardly surprising that the horses in this year's Triple Crown competition bore such undistinguished sobriquets as T.V. Commercial, Draft Card, Call Me Prince, Sir Beau and Forward Pass. The horse that captured the Belmont Stakes was Greentree Stable's Stage Door Johnny, whose name reflected rare wit and imagination on the part of its owners-John Hay Whitney and his sister Joan Payson. Stage Door Johnny's sire...
...young man's opposition to induction and a trip to Viet Nam is strong enough, he should have little trouble getting his day in court. He need only refuse to be drafted, like Muhammad Ali, or burn his draft card, like David O'Brien, whose conviction has just been upheld by the Supreme Court. These days, such actions are almost sure to bring prosecution and a chance to argue the case before a judge and jury. But what of the average draftee who feels he should be either reclassified or excused from service, yet shies away from deliberate...
...stands before his local draft board very much like a man on trial. But unlike an ordinary defendant, he is, in effect, guilty until proved innocent-that is, he is 1A until he can demonstrate that he deserves to be deferred. Moreover, draft boards, made up of well-intentioned but often legally untrained pillars of the community, are not courts of law. They are federal administrative agencies charged with producing a quota of inductees each month, and they have wide latitude in deciding when, why and who shall...
Hard Time. Some matters are rigidly prescribed, such as a requirement that a man be given at least 30 days to appeal a 1A classification, but many others have purposely been left to the virtually unfettered discretion of local boards. Recent changes in the draft have removed most graduate students and many so-called "critical-skills" workers from their semi-automatic deferred status. But even before the change, local boards were not absolutely required to grant deferments, and now a deferment can still be issued if a board is persuaded that there is a "community need...
Then, on February 16, lightning struck. In perhaps the single most important event of the year to the movement, the Selective Service decided to draft seniors and first-year graduate students in June. The symbolic confrontation at the Pentagon was now a real one. It was a shock that everyone knew was coming...