Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, the Bucks flipped a coin with the Suns to see who would pick first in the NBA draft and for the first time since the Braves left, Milwaukee sports fans smiled. From Pewaukee to Wauwatosa, everyone in Milwaukee knows that the Bucks have first shot at the big Lew in the draft, and now you know...
...questionnaire asks students to agree or disagree with a long list of statements, including the following: "American colleges and universities must be destroyed before they can be reformed." "I am in graduate school in order to avoid the draft." "Faculty members should be free on campus to advocate violent resistance to public authority." 'Marijuana should be legalized...
...front-running Laugh-In continues to get out spoken and risque material past its own censors, the Smothers say that often they are required to snip even the mildest material. On the disputed program, for example, Folk Singer Joan Baez dedicated a song to her husband, a convicted draft resister, with the preface: "He is going to prison for three years. The reason is that he resisted selective service and the draft and militarism in general." The second sentence was cut. Also deleted were such soporific bits as Comic Jackie Mason's gag about children playing doctor. There really...
When a recovery helicopter descended to lower the cagelike sling used to lift the astronauts aboard, the draft from its rotor whipped the ocean swells and pushed the floating spacecraft and attached rafts away. Again and again, as NASA the helicopter made passes, frogmen reached for and missed the dangling cage...
...surprise. An enthusiast of interdisciplinary studies, she has organized countless sessions that have brought anthropologists together with men of widely varying disciplines. Although not enamored of the S.D.S., she argues that "our colleges are 400 years out of date." A fighter for equal opportunity, she favors a coed draft, although she would not give guns to women because "they are too fierce." Recently she has been recommending that Americans accept their society's evolution toward two different types of marriage: "individual marriage" for young couples not intending to have children and "parental marriage" for couples desiring offspring...