Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every month each draft board sends between 30 and 90 of its registrants to be inducted. The BDRG organizes "bussing teams," which meet the inductees at 6 a.m. while they are waiting for the bus in front of their local draft boards. "The first thing we ask is how many want to go to Vietnam," says director Mike Mickelson, "and usually no more than one or two will raise their hands." The BDRG teams advise them on the possibilities of avoiding service and often able to enter the bus with the inductees...
...girl pairs. They work for a few hours and come back and discuss their experiences. A pair will cover from four to a dozen homes per day. The organizers have covered nearly 400 homes so far, Grizzard said. The list of 1-A's is available at local draft boards, and the homes visited are confined to this list...
...eight "non-resident" seats on the agency will represent the City government and local agencies, universities, businesses, and charitable organizations...
...issues of the superintendency battle are depressingly simple. The four Independents, who jealously insist that outsiders like the local educators be excluded from any part in their selection process, are indulging in the same mindless parochialism that won Louise Day Hicks her numerous following. Fitzgerald's motion should be defeated, but barring that, the Independent majority should at least have the honesty not to limit the committee's search to faithful local cronies...
...local draft board--the heart of the system--exists to provide the number of young and healthy American males the Department of Defense has deemed necessary to help continue the safe existence of our country...