Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coffin, chaplain at Yale and a leader of the draft resistance movement, was chosen last week. Rudnick said that the selection committee had tried to get Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Norman K. Mailer '43, but that both had refused...
...dissenters themselves are a heterogenous group. Although higher draft calls have brought more college men into the service, few of them seem willing to risk the stigma of a bad-conduct or dishonorable discharge to protest the system. Most of those involved are college and high-school dropouts. Some are misfits with poor civilian and military records who use opposition to the war as a rationale for their conduct and attitude. Many others, of course, are sincere in their rebellious attitude. A.S.U. Chief Stapp says that as many as 5% of the country's 3.5 million men in uniform...
Kelly was a three-sport star in high school at Reading, Mass., and was a high draft choice of the St. Louis Cardinals. He played defensive back for the Crimson football team last fall, but will recovery of an onside kick during the last minute of The Game...
...This is a very large change," Gerald Holton, professor of Physics and head of that department, said yesterday. "Previously Harvard University could write no letters requesting deferment, and the entire draft law depends on someone writing a letter using the word request. Otherwise the draft board would not by law be obligated to consider the letter...
According to Thomas K. Sisson, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 23 graduate students had left by the end of the first semester supposedly for reasons directly related to the draft, although not necessarily because they had been drafted...