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Dates: during 1960-1969
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September 14 was the first date selected last night in the newly-re-instituted annual national draft lottery. All U.S. men between the ages of 19 and 26 were assigned by birthday to a number between 1 and 366. The numbers represent the order in which each man will be called up for the draft, either in 1970 or when his exemption expires...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Lottery: Happy Birthday For Some | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

...only apply to those who turned 19 during the previous year. Once you are originally assigned a lottery number, it is yours for the rest of your draft eligible career. Those who get through their 19th year with no exemption without being drafted will probably never be. If a man's exemption ends before he turns 26, he becomes liable to the draft for a year according to his number. just as if he were...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Lottery: Happy Birthday For Some | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

Here is the "tie-breaking" order of call, in which the initial of each man's last name and first name if necessary will be matched with a scrambled alphabet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Magic Numbers | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

This old fashioned plea for integration sounds quaint at a moment when ethnic power and "positive polarization" are carrying the day. It sounds curiously quaint from the man often credited with the rediscovery of the ethnic community ( Beyond the Melting Pot ). Perhaps Moynihan could soft-pedal his policy as "the creation of black suburbs." The creation of black suburbs, though, has been going on for many years; to some extent, it has aggravated the social disorientation of the blacks left behind. Moynihan actually has in mind a federally financed migration out of the ghetto. But to where- the white suburbs...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: The City Moynihanism | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

...national urban policy is articulate, well documented, but ultimately divisive. It will not rouse the Administration to action: it will not rouse Congress to action; at most it will rouse a few social scientists to speculation. But it deserves a measure of appreciation. It takes a brazen man to outline policy- and national policy, at that- on problems of such complexity that their prolonged study can induce paralysis...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: The City Moynihanism | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

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