Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft calls increase, the pressure on potential draftees is more intense. "The first question we ask is whether the person would go to Canada, to jail, or into the army," explains William A. Hunt, a teaching fellow in Social Studies and a regular draft counsellor...
...counsellor's first job is to see if the person is eligible for one of the 13 Selective Service deferments. If not, Hunt recommends a multi-issue approach for several months before the probable induction date: make a claim for conscientious objection (even if it is unrealistic it will waste time and tends to lessen the jail sentence if you eventually refuse induction), begin seeing a therapist and complain about your fears of entering the army, engage in anti-war activities, write a series of indignant and inflammatory letters to your draft board...
...central question is how much indignity a person a person is willing to undergo to avoid Canada, the army, or jail. "I knew a person who after months and months succeeded in getting a 1-Y deferment for homosexuality but in the process just about ruined his life," says Hunt. An individual can move in with a welfare mother to get a III-A dependency deferment...
...This is where we need our subversive ministers and social workers to write the necessary applications," says Hunt. The counsellors also have at their disposal a Psychiatrist Referral Board, which has produced a "substantial number" of sympathetic recommendations to draft boards...
...what the music world calls the Great Conductor Hunt, one of the choicest quarries has been shaggy-haired Seiji Ozawa, 32, conductor of the Toronto Symphony. He is gifted enough to have been considered a prospect for two of the nation's top orchestras, New York and Chicago (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week the San Francisco Symphony announced that it had bagged Ozawa for itself, starting in the fall of 1970. Retiring Viennese Conductor Josef Krips, 65, who in the past five years has rebuilt San Francisco into one of the nation's solid second-rank ensembles...