Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under my proposal, men would be selected for the Fair and Impartial Random System at age 19. Deferment would be restricted to cases of extreme hardship or conscientious objection. A young man would have but one year in his life when he was vulnerable to the draft--at 19. If men did not choose to enter the lottery pool at 19, they would be permitted to complete two years of college or technical or vocational training before submitting their names...
...draft system must be based upon fair and equitable rules of law applicable to all draft boards. Due process of law must be afforded each draft registrant...
...biennial Canton Trade Fair last week, The Red Lantern was put on for Chinese and foreign visitors and broadcast over Canton television. Also, a truncated version of the work (two soloists, eight arias) has now been made into a 35-minute film for showing inside and outside China. It is about as ex citing as a Communist indoctrination lecture-which is what it is. Even the workers and peasants who have been marshalled into showings have shown enthusiasm only when a picture of Mao himself has appeared. In response to Chinese critics who compared her new style to "insipid water...
...Walter W. Heller last week recalled an old poker-room joke that, he said, he had heard from President Johnson. It has to do with a professional dealer who is getting an unexpected show of strength from one of the local yokels. "Reuben," says the shark, "you better play fair, because I know exactly what I dealt...
...right to isolate himself. "A university can promote many things beside the intellectual enterprise," he says. "But I worry the moment it starts to abandon that enterprise for any reason." Barricading the Dow recruiter last year seemed to him a threatening disruption of the rules of liberal fair play. He is willing, however, to be as critical of the Right as of the Left. He has no truck for those parlour libertarians who find SDS rhetoric "ominously ambiguous" and General Hershey's announcements merely "impolitic" or "stupid." His confidence in words and the possibility of making sense may appear...