Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he was vice president of his family's farm-equipment company in Chico. A World War II draftee-he ended up as technician fourth grade -Tarr knows the draft system from the bottom up, without having been a professional soldier like his predecessor Lieut. General Lewis Hershey. After the war, Tarr received an A.B. from Stanford University and a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He returned to Stanford for his Ph.D.; his doctoral thesis: Unification of America's Armed Forces: A Century and a Half of Conflict...
...People understand and speak to you all the time about how their work in the current ten million ton harvest will speed the day when the cutting of cane will be completely mechanized. Workers in all the different sections of a sugar mill we visited (which was owned by Hershey Co. before the Revolution and now is named after Camilo Cienfuegos, a leader of the R?bel Army in the war against Batista) put up big red banners in English for us stating how proud they were to be a part of the ten million ton harvest. Practically the whole...
Winning over its youthful critics and antiwar antagonists has long been a major aim of the Nixon Administration. One move in that direction was the forced retirement of Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, 76, as director and aging symbol of the Selective Service System. The White House has also held out hope that the draft might be abolished altogether, but that notion is not highly popular on Capitol Hill. The President's choice to succeed Hershey, Pentagon Consultant Charles DiBona, 37, was scuttled by Senators who did not approve of his advocacy of a volunteer Army. Nevertheless, the Administration...
Athletic Types. Nixon and Laird originally wanted a man without military persona, someone who, unlike Lieut. General Hershey, 76, would be youth-oriented and attractive to the reformist critics of the present draft system. A couple of university presidents refused outright when approached to take the job. David Maxwell, Pennsylvania's budget director, was not interested. Then the Administration's recruiting effort turned to athletic types. Talent scouts tried to get John Pont, former head coach of Yale and now at Indiana University. Pont, who actively supported Nixon and was the President's occasional golf companion, said...
...procedures were often used to punish a wide variety of infractions -failing to report a change in address or marital status, for example. Delinquents faced immediate induction. When the war protests began, Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey (who will retire Feb. 16) reminded draft boards of their power to induct delinquents who failed to carry their draft cards. Were such procedures legal...