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...Bond, asked him if he concurred in the Snick statement. Replied Bond: "Fully." Later, Pacifist Bond added: "I admire the courage of anyone who burns his draft card"-even though he does not advocate draft-card burning and has not burned his own Selective Service classification I-Y card (exempt on physical, mental or moral grounds except in time of war or national emergency...
...already drafted substantial numbers of full-time students, while in other regions -- the Midwestern and Middle Atlantic states -- there is no indication that boards will take undergraduates. In affluent districts which send large numbers of their young men to college (and in farm districts where many registrants are draft-exempt agricultural employees) boards have been extremely hard-pressed to find eligible non-students. Some boards have inducted graduates and undergraduates who have taken a year's leave of absence, and others have not. Boards have applied different criteria in judging whether or not an individual has dependents, whether his particular...
...ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist...
...want to start learning on our own, and we simply have to ask the faculty now to initiate a program they probably wouldn't propose on their own," he continued. However, the spokesman noted that the students would not ask the faculty to exempt them from the traditional examinations...
...affluent districts which send large numbers of their eligible young men to college, or in farm districts which have a substantial portion of their registrants in draft-exempt agricultural employment, boards have been extremely hard-pressed to find non-student inductees. Boards in southern states have already drafted substantial numbers of full-time students. But in other states--Illinois and Michigan, for example--there is no indication that boards will take students...