Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While groping for peace, Richard Nixon still faces the grim business of managing war. Last week he sought to humanize the machinery by which his soldiers are conscripted. "The present draft arrangements," he said in a message to Congress, "make it extremely difficult for most young people to plan intelligently as they make some of the most important decisions of their lives, decisions concerning education, career, marriage and family...
...President asked for reforms that would replace an inflexible calendar with random chance. The plan, based on a lottery principle, would start with the youngest eligible men rather than with the oldest, as at present. Men are now liable for induction between the ages of 19 and 26. The new system would reduce the seven-year twitch to one. Among men of roughly the same age, the iron rule of oldest first, even if the difference is only a few days, would be removed...
...knew that his birth date fell in the latter half of the sequence, he could pretty well forget about military service at present draft levels because only about half of the potential 600,000-man pool would be taken. If he made it through his 19th year without being drafted, he would be free unless a national emergency occurred that exhausted the supply of 19-year-olds...
...proclamation, Attorney Melvin Mouron Belli put on his crusader's armor and announced to the world that he planned to take over Sirhan Sirhan's appeal. As it turned out, his plan was all news to Sirhan. Stating that "I, Sirhan Sirhan, have full confidence in my present attorneys, Grant Cooper and Russell Parsons," the convicted assassin of Robert Kennedy indicated that he would engage them "and none other...
...prediction, they can issue one long-range forecast with some certainty. About 5 billion years from now, they calculate, the sun will have used up the hydrogen fuel in its core. It will then begin burning hydrogen in its outer layers and gradually expand-perhaps to 100 times its present size-turning into a giant red globe that will fill most of the sky when seen from earth. Unfortunately, man will not be around to see this spectacular view. The expanding sun will boil away the oceans, melt rock and heat the earth's surface to 4,000 degrees...