Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coupled with the new law's abolition of graduate deferments for all but medical students, Johnson's inaction left the Defense Department with 1.1 million eligible men and no way to select its quota of 300,000 except by descending age-sequence: oldest men first. With that procedure, two-thirds of the Army's recruits starting in June would be college graduates. A Defense Department official said that the Army could not "tolerate" such a high proportion of old, recalcitrant, unmalleable...
...latest proposal being considered would draft men according to the percentages of the various age groups represented in the total eligibility pool. For example, if 21-year-olds made up 15 per cent of the total pool, then they would make up 15 per cent of each month's quota...
...Quota. Wolfe was a myth-sized American natural (6 ft. 6 in. and 240 Ibs.), born in the mountains of North Carolina. His eating, his boozing, his lovemaking, his flashes of temper and his formidable output of words, spoken or written, were indulgences on a massive scale. His self-pity and his ruthless use of others, both in fiction and in reality (his own family, mistresses, editors), made it plain to friends and perceptive readers that Tom Wolfe asked more of life than he had the talent to pay for. So harshly did he caricature his native Asheville that...
Still, in every caricature, there was always some saddening or joyous truth, just as in Wolfe himself; when he could shake whatever demon was riding him, there was a quota of humor, fundamental decency and kindness. Moreover, he packed a mighty literary ambition. He made it plain that he was out to lasso and pin down the Great American Novel. He wanted to force the whole torrent of the U.S. experience between covers, from mean Brooklyn alleys to the lush farms of the heartland, from city slickers to wary countrymen-and for good measure he meant to throw in mountains...
...tranquil of times, a federal budget contains much guesswork: spending, revenues and general economic conditions for a period ending 18 months after the calculations are made must be reduced to hard figures. The Administration's fiscal-1969 budget presented to Congress this week contains more than the usual quota of uncertainties because of war, both raging and threatened, in Asia; volatility in the domestic and world economies; hostility to new taxes, and the fractiousness of election-year politics...