Word: randomization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only medical students receive graduate deferments, the eligibility pool would shrink slightly--to 1,090,000--a figure still far too large for current draft needs. The most vexing problem facing the President is how to select 360,000 draftees from this pool without instituting a random selection system, specifically forbidden him by Congress. The irony of the situation is that before the new law, the President could have instituted a random selection system without Congressional approval. But now he must either get Congress to adopt a random selection plan before June or devise a stop-gap system for this...
...Random Selection...
...other draft matters, Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) said in an interview today that he would propose institution of a random selection draft system early in the 1968 Senate session. Kennedy's bill would also call for the abolition of undergraduate deferments once American casualties in Vietnam reached a prescribed level...
...young hoods accosted Mrs. Kindermann - who was 5½ months pregnant - as she stood on the school steps waiting for her ride home. When they got no reaction to random obscenities and a pat on her back, one grabbed her purse, running with it to the opposite side of the street where Primitivo and the others were gathered. Mrs. Kindermann followed. With so many ordinary respectable people around, she could not believe that she was in danger. But the caper had just begun...
TAKEN at careful random in our New York editorial offices as this week's cover story was being edited, the pictures on this page show that a writer's or editor's inspiration may be only a glance away. These girls, who are researchers, secretaries and clerks, show up (nicely) for work every day in their minis. They raise few eyebrows at the office, but one girl was quite an attraction when she went home to Sioux Falls. None of them wear what the story describes as the "Hello, Officer" mini. But Writer Marshall Burchard...