Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeal must be taken within 30 days after your local board mails you a Notice of Classification, except when a longer period is allowed as stated on that notice...
...have a drink before I went. There was a guy there just back from Vietnam: two wooden arms, two wooden legs, and no disability payments. 'What's in it for me?' I said to myself and caught the next bus for here. I would have gone except Canada's where it's at and the Army wasn't going to take care of me if I got shot." He is sure he will get back to the States when the heat cools...
...real aura of unreality to the exile scene here that is produced by the tension between the expectations of the expatriates and the demands of the United States laws. The radicals focus only on today's war, the hippies on tomorrow's bread, and the law on forever. Except for a few unlitigated areas it is almost certain that flight to Canada to avoid the draft means that you spend the rest of your life there...
When it came, nothing was different, except the state of the war. It had intensified, grown more immoral, and more illegal. The altruism was forgotten. What was most important was saving your own skin--preventing yourself from being in a position where you would have to kill a man you thought you had no right to kill. It is too bad the altruism has been forgotten. The Selective Service System remains highly discriminatory even as the war grows worse...
...latest representative of the new thing-the de-Sade-but-true school of literature-it owes something to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, except that Capote is a far better writer than Emlyn Williams, the Welsh actor and dramatist (Night Must Fall, The Corn Is Green). Williams enters the lucrative literary creep-stakes, dragging behind him two human monsters and three well-mutilated corpses. He is writing about the "Moors murders," a gruesome three-act melodrama of cold-bloodletting that captivated British headline readers from Nov. 23, 1963, when the first murder occurred, until long after...