Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reports and statistical analysis, all the grand designing that has gone into the draft debate seems less grand when it is remembered that Rep. L. Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is a very close friend of Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the director of Selective Service...
...Whenever we need women, I think we ought to draft them," declared General Lewis Hershey, 73, head of the nation's Selective Service System. "There's a real nurse shortage in the armed forces." Will the girls be getting Greetings? Not for the present, Hershey quickly assured a reporter for the University of Michigan's daily newspaper. At a national conference on the draft in Chicago, Anthropologist Margaret Mead, 65, supported Hershey's idea of coed conscription to make national service truly equal and universal. She drew the line, though, at letting the ladies be battleaxes...
...MONROES (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Five orphaned youngsters, from six to 18, struggle to survive and establish a homestead in the Wyoming wilderness of the 1870s. Michael Anderson Jr. and Barbara Hershey head the doughty band...
There was no dearth of suggestions during the two-week hearings, ranging from Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey's insistence that selective service be left intact to proposals that the draft give way to a totally voluntary system with higher pay as the incentive to serve. A World War II-style lottery was the most popular proposal, with Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy its foremost advocate. A more intriguing solution was offered by New York's Democratic Congressman Otis Pike: eligible men should be allowed the choice of being drafted for three years or enlisting...
...Hershey's defense of the existing system thus resembled Winston Churchill's assessment of democracy: "The worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried." This week the Pentagon is to release the results of a long-awaited study on the draft and the nation's manpower problems ordered by President Johnson two years ago. Nonetheless, it seems unlikely that when major provisions of the present draft law expire on June 30, 1967, Congress will adopt any radically different system to replace...