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Veteran Bill Gilbane and sophomore Bill Coakley form the first unit, with seniors Gary Peacock and Bob Clifford as a second. Both pairs have allowed a staggering number of shots on McGinnis, who has been remarkably effective...
Feeney contends that student deferments and participation in National Guard and other short-term duty programs will remove so many men from the draft pool that every number will be called before the available slots for draftees are filled. Speaking at Springfield College, he called the lottery "a cruel deception" and "a sugar coating on the deal...
Selective Service emphasizes that the size of the draft call is contingent upon such factors as the number of deferments and exemptions and the size of American armed commitment, none of which are now calculable...
...Exhibit number three is Daniel Keves' 1966 novel, Flowers for Algernon. Keyes holds two degrees, has taught high-school and college English, and is now, at 42, lecturer in English at Ohio University. In its original shorter form. Flowers for Algernon won the Hugo Award as the best science novelette; it became an effective television play; in its expanded form it won the best novel-of-the-year Nebula Award; and it is the basis for the recent movie Charly (which, for ali its strong points does not come close to matching the book...
...University has contended first of all that setting the minimum number of minority workers at 20 per cent would be discriminatory since the proportion of non white workers in the metropolitan area work force falls far short of that figure. OBU disputes the Administration figure, but even if Afro were over-estimating the minority group percentage, their demand would still be legitimate. Tired reservations about "reverse discrimination" are insufficient excuse for not making every possible effort to assist minority group people in their effort to overcome the immense burdens which American society imposes upon them...