Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more existential form of flight. Other canvases are composed of a series of panels reminiscent of a strip of movie film or contact prints: La Protesta (the Protest), for example, shows a couple shaking fists in one quarter of the canvas, fleeing in the next, lying dead in a pool of blood in the final half...
...ankle-deep in white carpet. Once Hef has retired, his guests may amuse themselves as they see fit. The top floor of the house, used as a bunny dormitory by the Chicago Playboy club, is off limits. Very much available, however, is the heated, kidney-shaped first-floor swimming pool (bathing suits, if desired, are supplied by the house). If guests want seclusion, they may swim through a gentle waterfall to a hidden grotto furnished with soft cushions and background music. Privacy is not complete, however; the grotto can be observed through a trap door on the main hall above...
...will. Drafting men by lottery and therefore without bias is preferable to drafting them according to class distinctions. The student deferment should be abolished because it is inequitable -- it dramatically increases the coercion on particular sectors of the population by removing the rich and the smart from the manpower pool...
...President's Commission on the Draft will release its plans to reform the Selective Service System. The indications are that the Commission will propose the gradual abolition of the 2-S student deferment and the institution of a lottery -- a system which would draft men at random from a pool of all 18 and 19-year-olds mentally and physically fit to serve. The lottery should be enacted by Congress when the present Selective Service Act expires in June...
...Commission's lottery will achieve a distribution of military service appropriate to this nation's democratic traditions. Young men would go into the pool right after high school, when, according to many sociologists, a break in formal education would do them the most good. The Commission may also propose four-year, non-renewable deferments to allow men to complete college before going into the pool--but they would go into the pool...