Word: feeney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul F. Feeney, deputy director of Massachusetts Selective Service, confirmed yesterday that draft boards expect quick replies to their requests for grades. "If the board is right on the ball," he said, "it might reclassify a student whose grades are missing...
...students probably will not be drafted on the basis of their grades alone, Feeney explained. The nation-wide guidelines for student deferments, to be announced next month, will balance a student's class rank against his score on an aptitude test...
According to Feeney, doctors have previously been taken after their first year of internship. "But this pool has dried up with increased calls," he said, "and we've had to start reclassifying all physicians who haven't served...
...Feeney emphasized, however, that not all those reclassified will be called into active duty. "What we are doing "is screening those who are eligible. But there will be no snap judgments," he said...
...special advisory committee made up of members of the medical profession is aiding draft boards in selectng doctors for the draft, Feeney said. The cases of Massachusetts residents will be automatically reviewed by this committee, which will also make recommendations to out-of-state boards...