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...draft as a punitive measure. Testifying before a House Education subcommittee last week, he claimed that a Michigan board was justified in reclassifying as 1-A a group of young men who staged a sit-in at the board's office; and he asserted that other boards should similarly induct people who "deliberately impede" the operation of the selective service system...
...Michigan case in establishing a general principle. It had clearly been the intent of Congress, he said, the local boards should punish those who violate the Selective Service law in this way, rather than leave them to be prosecuted in the courts. No local board, he insisted, should induct a young man for criticizing the administration's foreign or domestic policy. But the boards could decide independently, and without trial, whether the registrants had "impeded" their work...
...granting deferments, the law states only that local boards should wait as long as possible to induct men whose activity is in the national interest. And although the boards are requested by state and national headquarters to grant 2-S deferments to students, they are not required by law to do so. "The 2-S status," says Hershey, "is merely a courtesy that the boards grant students because they believe they will be more valuable when they complete their courses." Even in granting exemptions, the law is so vague that local boards are almost completely autonomous...
...blared, the procession of robed clerics marched slowly through the crowded nave of Washington's vaulted Gothic National Cathedral. In side the chancel, the Rt. Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger addressed the stocky, grey-haired cleric who succeeds him as Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church: "I, Arthur, do induct and install you, Right Reverend Father in God, John, into the office of Presiding Bishop, with all its rights, dignities, honors, and privileges. May our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your going out and your coming in, from this time forth forevermore. Amen...
...Right Rev. Arthur Carl Lichtenberger. 59. sat in a carved oak throne 22 ft. high to hear the formal words of induction pronounced by his predecessor. Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill: "I, Henry Knox, do induct and install you, Right Reverend Father in God, Arthur, into the office of President Bishop, with all its rights, dignities, honors and privileges: in which may our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth forevermore. Amen...