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...new draft lottery system-which President Nixon signed into law Wednesday-was supposed to clarify each man's draft status. But the draft system is, at least temporarily, more confused than ever before...
...new system in no way affects the present system of educational and occupational deferments, which will still be available. Some men will be able to avoid entering the pool entirely, as they can at present, by remaining deferred until they are 26 although they might be safer to join the pool in a year when they thought they could not be drafted...
...government does not act, the new draft plan-supposedly intended to be more equitable than the old-may give college students a bigger advantage than ever before...
Once he had money and independence, Voltaire settled down to a cautious but often brilliantly effective guerrilla war against France's ancien régime. He was, Besterman suggests, the first man to recognize and mobilize that new creature, public opinion...
Just lately a shift in feeling has set in. As times grow more difficult, the new looks less promising; the settled old ways take on new luster. Anyone too inclined to idealize the countrified past, however, or dote on the imagined joys of continuity, might do well to study, as a cautionary text, this extraordinary portrait of an English village. Akenfield is a pseudonym for a real agricultural village of 300 souls about 90 miles and-until recently-several cultural centuries removed from London. "On the face of it," remarks Ronald Blythe, "it is the kind of place in which...