Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) announced Sunday that he would introduce legislation in Congress this week to completely revamp the draft system. Proposals include: a national lottery, liberalizing requirements for C.O. status, drafting youngest, first, reorganizing draft boards, abolishing punitive re-classification, setting a six-year term for Selective Service director...
...following is a statement by Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass...
There is a faint hope that Johnson's egregious mishandling of the draft dilemma may stir Congress to implement Senator Edward M. Kennedy's Selective Service reform bill--which would substitute random selection for the oldest-first policy. If Congress, like the President, avoids reevaluating the bizarre draft system, it will continue to exacerbate American frustration with an irrational war policy...
...provide perspective on the problem-whether its cause lies in the economics of the industry, lack of unionization, inadequacy of the laws or failure to enforce them, or perhaps a combination of these factors. As a result, the exposes were neither as searing or as illuminating as Edward R. Murrow's 1960 CBS documentary on migrant workers, Harvest of Shame. But both of NET's programs proved, as one of the films concluded, that "the migrant condition is still the shame of the nation...
...Bunkie* Knudsen, 55. After 29 years as a G.M. executive, he was earning some $481,000 a year as boss of domestic nonauto and all over seas operations. But he was keenly disappointed at his failure to win G.M.'s presidency last fall. Instead, his only obvious rival, Edward N. Cole, 58, won the job that Knudsen had coveted and courted for most of his life. Cole's ascension meant not only that Knudsen's road to promotion was blocked for at least another four years; it also meant that even if Knudsen did follow Cole...