Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even more diverse mixture. Picked to head it was an American, Nicholas J. Campbell Jr., 52, who had earlier been in Venezuela for Jersey and in Japan as president of Esso Sekiyu, the Japanese affiliate. Choosing as many capable executives as possible from Europe, Campbell ended up with a mix that includes 121 Americans, four Canadians, one Venezuelan, 86 Britons, 21 Germans, 16 Frenchmen, 14 Italians, ten Belgians, ten Norwegians, nine Swedes, eight Dutchmen, two Danes, two Swiss, one Finn and one Maltese, who all work comfortably together with English as their lingua Esso. Jersey resettled them with even...
...first is known in the Pentagon as "age-mix." Under this system, everyone in the pool is considered to be born in the same year and the oldest ones are drafted first. This would mean that men born in the first third of the year (January through April) would fill the entire year's draft call. Other "19-year-olds" would probably remain untouched. And there are an infinite number of gimmicks and variations to this plan. Draft boards could be told to work by the fiscal year which begins on July 1. Men born in July through October would...
...other system under consideration borders so much on the random that it could very well be challenged in Congress. Known as "random-birth" or "birth-mix," draftees would be chosen by taking all the men born on one of a number of arbitrarily selected dates in each month. This would involve drafting at one time men born on the same dates in all 12 months, not just those born at certain times of the year or months. When shown this plan, General Hershey said it was clearly random, violated the oldest-first dictum, and would very clearly be declared illegal...
...nearly completing his school year. Since the I-S deferment has been abolished, a graduate student can be inducted in the middle of the year with no recourse other than the sympathy of his board. But once told the year's or month's starting point in the "age-mix" system or the chosen birth-dates in the "birth-mix" system, a registrant could estimate his chances of induction with a fair degree of accuracy. It's bookmaking...
...does each class appear statistically like the one ahead of it, if "quotas" are not used? There seem to be two answers. First, each man on the admissions committee feels in his own mind that a "good mix" is a necessary thing for Harvard College. If the admissions committee has just okayed nine consecutive students from a small town in Oregon, it will become wary of admitting more. Perhaps, as Whitla suggests, the advocate himself will not be able to find it in him to argue a tenth case enthusiastically. More important, there is something of a quota built into...