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...idea of a conscription lottery is far from new. The U.S. used it in July 1917 to pluck 687,000 draftees from 10 million registrants between the ages of 21 and 31. Conceived by Army Provost Marshal General Enoch H. Crowder, the drawing was made in Washington from 10,500 numbered slips of paper (10,500 was the largest number of registrants signed up with any single local board). The first number pulled from the fishbowl was 258, and every registrant with that number was called. In all, 1,374,000 men took physical exams; 70% passed and then...
...policy or criticism, but there is a right and a wrong way of doing things." Few Tories would quarrel with that, but not a few wondered if Heath had "shot the right fox." More than Maude's maunderings, it has been the outspoken speeches of Shadow Defense Minister Enoch Powell opposing the official Tory positions on defense and incomes policy that have set Tory backbenchers-and some frontbenchers as well-to squabbling. Nor has the all-dominant issue of Rhodesia, which has split Tory sympathies three ways, aided Heath's task as captain...
...introductory speech, Heath droned on about the benefits of "occupational pensions" and "meals-on-wheels" to the yawns of the audience. It was not until next day that the Conservatives were able to grab some headline space. Up stepped tough, mustachioed Enoch Powell, the shadow Defense Minister, with an astonishing plea for reduction of British military commitments east of Suez. Arguing that "a military presence has more than once proved an obstacle," Powell said that in the long run the quelling of Communist expansionism in Asia and Africa was not Britain's business. Besides, maintenance of military bases...
Married. Orville Enoch Hodge, 60, former Illinois state auditor and gubernatorial hopeful who in 1956 went to jail for embezzling $1,450,000 in public funds, was paroled in 1963 to make a new life as an Oldsmobile salesman; and Viola Coombs, 61, a home-town secretary; both for the second time; in Granite City...
...Professional Decision. Whoever wins will almost surely give the party its first youthful look in decades; the two prime contenders are Reginald Maudling, 48, and Edward Heath, 49. A half dozen other Tories, from the coldly brilliant, right-wing Enoch Powell to the pugnaciously independent Peter Thorneycroft, are given dark horse chances...