Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proof. When all else fails, most young men threatened with induction have only two ways of bringing their case before the courts. They can go through with induction and then ask a court to order their release on a writ of habeas corpus. They can also refuse induction and be tried for draft evasion -risking a five year sentence. Despite the risk, the number of federal criminal prosecutions brought under the Selective Service law has risen steadily -from a mere 287 in fiscal 1964 to 3,305 last year...
...problem is that men who can afford skilled draft lawyers have a clear advantage over the sons of poor families who cannot pay high legal fees. Though some lawyers are helping to train "draft counselors," who give free help, the poor still get less than professional advice-more sad proof that the present draft laws not only make draft lawyers necessary but also breed contempt for law in general...
...Breed. This approach, first used during World War II, helped establish one of psychiatry's newest methods: group therapy. If the efficacy of such treatment needs any further proof, psychiatrists in Viet Nam feel that they have provided it beyond any doubt. But the value of their experience may go well beyond that...
...Josephine and her "fraternité universelle" -twelve adopted children of all races and nationalities. The St. Louis-born singer and her brood, after losing their chateau in the south of France, have now moved into a lovely white villa on the coast at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. "This is the proof that one should never despair," said Josephine, adding that she will now work even harder to meet the rest of the payments on the $100,000 house...
Once all this is done, limeness is just beginning. The distinctive feature of this flavor is Style, Girls who adopt it are sometimes thought of as the Radcliffe stereotype, and probably give wholesome Harvard freshmen from Iowa their first proof that the East is indeed strange looking. Greek shoulderbags are extremely popular, as are ski jackets, black tights. pierced ears, half high heels, scarves around their neck, long unpolished fingernails, rain ponchos, jewelry, and long hair. The most well-dressed of them imitate a European sort of gray-beige expensive simplicity: the sloppy ones wear skipolo shirts and dungarees...