Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision rendered last week in Boston by the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals was a less than resounding victory. True, the court over turned the year-old convictions of Dr. Benjamin Spock and Harvard Graduate Student Michael Ferber on charges that they conspired to aid, abet and counsel draft registrants to violate the Selective Service law. Author Mitchell Goodman and Yale Chaplain the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, who were convicted on the same conspiracy charges, were granted retrials. From the dissenters' view point, however, the cases had been won for entirely the wrong reasons. Their right to unrestrained...
...free speech. Arthur J. Goldberg, former As sociate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, based his argument against the convictions on this principle. He contended that the Government's attempt to prove "conspiracy" against the four protesters was based on public, not secret, expressions of dissent against the draft and the war. "The First Amend-ment," argued Godberg, "prohibits conditions on any such basis...
...clothes-lessness-is-next-to-Godliness homilies of hippies, nudists, protesters and naked theater advocates, who have somehow managed to equate the altogether with the unattainable: total honesty, innocence, understanding, peace and, in the same breath, revolution. Protesters who stop traffic or disrupt the work of a draft board by taking off their clothes use nudity as a kind of nonviolent Luddism. But artistically undressing is too easy. If a dramatist can substitute a mute nude for the interplay of character and situation, he will be tempted to do so and in all likelihood be handsomely rewarded for succumbing. Nonetheless...
...company. The regional managers tried to maintain their operations as separate entities and ignored Melchett's efforts to exert centralized control. One manager, for example, announced an ambitious investment plan without even telling Melchett about it. Lately, however, Melchett has got a firm enough grip on BSC to draft a long-range modernization program...
...obviously hoked-up scene, shouted at Jimmy Ellis: "You're next!" Muhammad Ali, the man who popularized such gate-building theatrics when he was known as Cassius Clay, got in his licks, too. After the fight, the suspended Muslim minister said that until his appeal on a draft-evasion conviction is decided, "I don't want to say I'm formally retired. And they can't have a real champion until I do that or until I'm physically whipped." Amen...