Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only medical students receive graduate deferments, the eligibility pool would shrink slightly--to 1,090,000--a figure still far too large for current draft needs. The most vexing problem facing the President is how to select 360,000 draftees from this pool without instituting a random selection system, specifically forbidden him by Congress. The irony of the situation is that before the new law, the President could have instituted a random selection system without Congressional approval. But now he must either get Congress to adopt a random selection plan before June or devise a stop-gap system for this...
...students. The instrument of his decision will be the draft, and the problems it faces him with are complex. He will have to decide which graduate students to defer whether to induct the oldest or the youngest first, and how to select the 300,000 draftees from an eligible pool of more than one million. Neither official nor unofficial Washington knows what the President will decide, but there are already some clear indications of what to expect...
...President will get around Congress' stipulations by designating all qualified older men who have just lost their deferments (such as college graduates losing II-S) as "constructive" 19-year-olds for draft purposes. Without any graduate deferments this will mean a June eligibility pool of 1,113,000 real and "constructive" 19-year-olds. Both groups will be treated equally. Barring a major mobilization, 1968 draft calls are expected to be no higher than 360,000, or one-third of those eligible...
...actual pool will be smaller because some graduate students will be deferred, although not so many as recent reports might indicate. The President said last spring that he favors deferring students studying to be dentists and doctors, including veterinarians, osteopaths, and optometrists. The National Security Council asked the Interagency Advisory Committee on Essential Activities and Critical Occupations to compile a list of fields that merit deferments "in the national interest." The Committee's completed recommendations, which have slowly leaked out to the public, are presently known to include "the earth, biological, natural, and physical sciences"; teaching the new, and presently...
...sophistication, the "me Tarzan, you Jane" approach has no more chance than a minnow in a pool of piranhas. Two seniors have written a pamphlet with a "new fresh approach" telling a man how and where to find the girl of his desires...