Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CONVERSATION OVER SUPPER at North House had taken a nostalgic turn, when someone said, "Remember the draft?" Wrinkled, sweat-darkened draft cards emerged from our wallets. We read the baleful warnings on the back: Five years or $10,000 fine for failing to have it in your possession; the same penalty for lending it to another to use as identification. Next the topic turned to lottery numbers: who had gotten number 12, who 364. Suddenly I realized that most of the men present were not participating. They were too young, a "different generation," and had never known or feared...
...December of 1972 I talked with two young men who were to share the distinction, as it turned out, of being among the very last Americans to beat the draft. The story of these men--call them Larry and David--is not the whole picture by any means, but merely an episode that may give the flavor of college life in an era when the worst pressures were typically not from exams...
...just over five years since the last unwilling conscripts joined the army. And it may not be much more than five years until the draft comes back, judging from the unexpectedly high cost and questionable military ardor of the all-volunteer army. Not so long ago, leaves of absence were avoided, psychiatrists consulted, cooler climes visited, and careers inconveniently interrupted because of the draft. The draft, now so easily forgotten, was then a compelling and ominous presence in our midst...
...experience. "We're being taught a lot about the special teams, especially penalty killing." Evans, described by Benson as a wing who "always comes out of the corner with the puck," was a first team All-Star pick in the Ontario Hockey Association last year, and a number one draft pick of the Major Junior "A" Hamilton Fin-Cups. He declined the offer in order to play college hockey...
...glory." Payton first attracted attention at Mississippi's all-black Jackson State, which became a magnet for pro scouts as he set an N.C.A.A. scoring record with 66 touchdowns. Looking for a centerpiece for their rebuilding effort, the Bears picked him in the first round of the draft...