Word: janning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-olds and draw from its ranks. Birth dates would determine the order of priority, but they would be arranged randomly instead of chronologically. A "Selective Service year" would be constructed annually. It could begin with any date, say Oct. 17, followed by other ad hoc choices: Jan. 4, July 20, April 27 and so on. The 365 dates would probably be drawn from a fishbowl, as were the numbers of the first draftees in World War II. Young men born on the first date in the scrambled year would be the first to face induction...
...help. Governor William Guy responded with 500 National Guardsmen, who came dressed for combat and armed with rifles and 5-ft. clubs. Within an hour the students were gone, leaving behind a shattered community. Not one of the town's stores could open for business that day. Jan Beick, whose modest café rang up impressive sales of $150 Friday night, estimated his damage at $2,000 on Saturday morning. The zapped Zappians could at least console themselves that next year's rites of spring may be visited on another community. How about Donnybrook...
...crossing lacked the panache of the past, but it laid to rest doubts of the ship's seaworthiness (TIME, Jan. 10). The sleek vessel cut through choppy seas without so much as a tinkle of ice cubes in highball glasses. Computers charted a flawless course, and satellites monitored her position. "I'm sorry I have nothing dramatic to tell you," said the ship's master, Captain William Warwick, a former relief captain for both the Queen Mary and the first Queen Elizabeth. "But what's there to say when everything goes so well...
...Pope." Last fall a Jesuit chaplain to Roman Catholic students in Amsterdam announced that he intended to marry and continue in the priesthood. Two other young Jesuits gave him public support, and early this month were dismissed from the order by Arrupe. The Provincial of the Dutch Jesuits, Father Jan Hermans, then re signed his post rather than enforce the dismissals. Schoenenberger, Arrupe's Swiss-born administrator for seven Northern European countries, was also in sympathy with the Dutch rebels, and concerned about the slow pace of reform within the society. The dismissals confirmed his resolve to leave...
...Harvard must support rent control for Cambridge and Boston, and until passage of rent control laws it must voluntarily control the rents of its own properties at the Jan. 1 1968 level...