Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many interesting hypotheses can be drawn from these findings. Sixty per cent of the sample were eligible for the draft, and of these two thirds plan to go to graduate school. However, many of these responses were given before the new Selective Service ruling. It is impossible to judge from these figures how many of these students were planning to continue their education solely as a means of avoiding the draft. But it will be interesting to see if there is a significant drop in this percentage in subsequent years...
...draft card turn-in staged at Boston's Arlington St. Church last October 16 was among the draft-resistance activities cited...
...trial of Dr. Benjamin I. Spock and four other men--including a Harvard graduate student--on charges of counseling others to refuse the draft is scheduled to begin today in Boston's federal court...
...federal grand jury indicted the five men on January 5. It listed 11 specific acts on their part which it alleged to be part of a nationwide program of draft resistance...
...lower calls should not significantly affect this year's seniors and first-year graduate students, who become draft-eligible in June. Their induction may be a month or two later, but nearly all of them will still be called...