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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With variations, the drama was played in college dormitories and homes throughout the U.S. last week as, one by one, members of the Selective Service System's Youth Advisory Committee walked to the giant fishbowl and drew out small plastic capsules containing 366 dates. That drawing was followed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: The Luck of the Draw | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Not all were willing to accept the luck of the draw. While a few talked of flight to Canada and some of seeking exemptions on physical or psychological grounds, most searched for alternatives to the draft. A few planned to seek conscientious-objector status; some expected to enlist in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: The Luck of the Draw | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Out of this certitude, Yahya is about to undertake the most fundamental political changes in Pakistan since Britain granted it independence 22 years ago. On Jan. 1, such political activities as rallies and speeches will once again be permitted. By June, electoral rolls are to be brought up to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Back to Democracy, On the Double | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

This time around, Eugene McCarthy has won a national election. The three-member poetry prize committee of the National Endowment for the Arts has chosen his poem, Three Bad Signs, for a $500 award. Completed during the Indiana primary campaign last year, the poem appears to be a sly indictment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 12, 1969 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Is the National Council of Churches an anachronism? Founded in a flush of enthusiasm 19 years ago to promote ecumenism and cooperative social action among Christian churches, the council has come under increasing fire lately. Critics-many of them inside the N.C.C. -argue that its cumbersome bureaucracy can do little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crunch at the Council | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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