Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus last week began the third annual combined draft of the National and American Football Leagues. There was never a moment's doubt about Simpson: under the rules, the team with the poorest record has the right to make its draft selection first, and Buffalo, with a 1-12-1 record, won the honor hands down. O.J. had made some noises about refusing to go to Buffalo, but by week's end everyone seemed happy...
Beef Stock. If the choice of Simpson was obvious, the selections of Domres and Yale Halfback Calvin Hill, who was the first choice of the Dallas Cowboys, were surprises. It was in fact the first time in the 34-year history of the pro draft that two players from the lowly Ivy League were snapped up in the first round. Save for All-America Quarterback Terry Hanratty of Notre Dame, who was bypassed (presumably because of his injured knee) and later picked up in the second round by the Pittsburgh Steelers, the rest of the midwinter harvest was predictable...
...Express reporters covered all the candidates, examined the antiwar sentiment and racial conflict that lay be hind the election. Working from his reporters' lengthy files, English knocked out a rough draft of half the book in New York before Election Day. He shifted to London for seven weeks of fevered final writing, much of the time locked in a room with his closest collaborator, Correspondent Richard Kilian. "We thought we were never going to finish," English says...
...conscientious objector that goes back to World War II. "I could not fight against the master race theory of Hitler while we had it here at home." He got a deferment for theological studies, though he made clear his intentions to stay out of the ministry ("My draft board just didn't want to cause anyone any trouble...
...majority of Army and Air Force ROTC students, membership in the units is the source of their draft deferments (being graduate students, they are not automatically deferred as are College students); it would seem harsh for the College to urge, if effect, that these draft deferments be abolished...