Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they do it? When a youth first comes to them, draft lawyers thoroughly question him to determine whether he has even the remotest right to a deferment. Even college students are sometimes not aware of all the possibilities. Lafferty once interviewed a young man who faced induction after losing his student deferment and wanted to flee to Canada. "We talked for a while," says Lafferty, "then I found out that the kid had a child and a blind wife waiting for him outside the office." The client received an automatic deferment to support his wife. Occupational deferments are available...
...most questionable features of the Selective Service rules is that they do not permit a man to have a lawyer when he comes before either his draft board or an appeals board. As a result, most lawyers advise their clients to bring a witness to take notes on everything that is said (draft boards do not always keep adequate written records of such appearances). Those claiming conscientious-objector status are urged to question board members aggressively, in the hope that they will reveal for the record a lack of understanding of U.S. v. Seeger. In that decision, the U.S. Supreme...
...answer would have been laughably obvious. By 1968, however, things had changed. A "new Nixon" appeared on television with the kind of polish that could sell a used car to an Amish elder. The inevitable question arose from cynics and supporters alike: How come...
...There is no information that I have that would lead me to respond to that question in the affirmative...
...from Establishment friends of Profumo, who has been working hard at a social-welfare settlement in London's East End since resigning from public life. Class considerations aside, many in Britain simply feel that Profumo has earned the right to be let alone. Some also raised a broader question of the citizen's right to privacy, a right not guaranteed under British law. As politicians talked about such a statute, freewheeling Fleet Street winced. But Lord Devlin, retiring chairman of Britain's Press Council, told the newspapers that the issue was really in their hands. Speaking...