Word: enlistable
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...look around us to see how the selective draft produces a general confusion and misdirection in the lives of those eligible to be called up. As soon as he graduates from high school, the teenager is faced with the quandry of when, how, and even whether he ought to enlist. He can "get it over with" before college, but that means starting school after his friends. Besides, he will have to attend boring Army Reserve meetings every week for years...
...draft leads to another evil which Mr. Gitlin does not mention. High school and college graduates who have not serverd their time, but who are still eligible, are discriminated against by employers. Many who enlist do not do so from any desire to serve their country or to reap the benefits of a military training, but rather to eliminate the prime obstacle to decent employment...
...G.O.P. is even more wide open and more hopeful about '64. With Kennedy in the White House, Republican politicians were willing to think about gambling with Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater as a dramatic alternative. But now 1964 is anybody's race, and the G.O.P. may well enlist a middle-of-the-roader to challenge Johnson?Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, even Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton or Michigan's Governor George Romney. Those who had been shunning the race because they figured it was a lost cause anyway may now be entertaining second thoughts. The tip-off should come when...
...north around the Arctic Circle, scientists and engineers have been engaged for years in a cold war that knows no politics. From both sides of the Iron Curtain, volunteers enlist in the fight against a common enemy: permafrost, the iron-hard layer of dirt and rock bonded together by year-round ice. Permafrost underlies 20% of the earth's land area. It is 150 ft. thick at Fair banks, Alaska, more than 2,000 ft. thick beneath the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia. Permafrost blocks well shafts, freezes oil drills, makes water piping and sewage disposal costly, heaves...
Boston needs a journal which will not only confront its problems honestly, but also enlist the contributions of prominent citizens who are often blithely unaware of the community in which they live. Through Forum the editors thus hope to "integrate" the citizens of Boston by making them conscious of common issues, and the need for common solutions...