Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first is induction by random selection from a pool of all draft-eligible men. Although the deans dodged the question of whether this pool should consist of high school, college or graduate school-age men, the CRIMSON has endorsed the Marshall Commission's recommendation that 19-year-olds and all older men holding student deferments should go into the lottery...
...considered critical to the national welfare. "All fields of higher education are of equally critical importance to the continued welfare and balanced development of the nation," the deans said. They agree with the Marshall Commission that this should not include medical and dentistry students, who would enter the lottery pool upon graduation...
Violence had begun at the Reflecting Pool. Two young men in wind-breaker jackets relieved the boredom by rushing British Labor leader Clive Jenkins, who was speaking, and smashing him and the rostrum and all the microphones down to the ground. No one was hurt, and the two men, later identified as members of the American Nazi Party (Arlington, Va.), were wrestled away by marshals as the Nazis yelled, "Commies, commies, Vietcong commies," into a microphone obligingly held by a radio station technician...
...scene at the Reflecting Pool was something akin to a Be-In on the banks of the Charles save that the preparations were more elaborate. Some 50 Negro D.C. policemen were grouped on the far-side of the gathering demonstrators getting a pep-talk from a white police sergeant; a Red Cross station was set up by the Army as a constant reminder that the authorities expected trouble. As the crowd grew, the entertainment and speeches started--everyone seemed to be wandering around aimlessly looking for someone...
...picnic-like atmosphere began to fade and people congregated around banners or famous anti-war personalities. Many of the more militant groups--including contingents from the Communist Party, Progressive Labor, a group of NLF sympathizers, and Students for a Democratic Society--moved toward the head of the Reflecting Pool so that they could be close to the front of the parade. Ironically, they ended up in what had been the segment of the march designated for "religious groups." The tactics-were clear. The militants had heard that authorities planned to keep the demonstration in the North Parking Lot, well removed...