Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debate on the draft that has been raging on the Brandeis campus for the last three weeks. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty have all held meetings to determine the position Brandeis should take in response to the Selective Service decision to base deferment decisions on a student's rank in class...
...tests, which are not mandatory, will be used by local draft boards along with class rank in determining student deferments. They will be given only on May 14 and 21, and June 3 to members diversity...
High Society. Actually, there can be no solution without a measure of political risk. In a joint press conference last week, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and House Republican Leader Gerald Ford predicted that the economy would rank "right up at the top" as an election issue, went on to declare that "the Great Society has become the High Society," with "high taxes, high prices, high spending, high deficits." It was an all-purpose statement-putting Johnson on the spot, whether he raises taxes to dampen inflation or risks higher prices by failing...
...Colonel Bogie March. In wave upon wave, the royal procession proceeded to the town hall, silver-helmeted motorcyclists, limousines with the visiting kings and queens, six glittering coaches for the bridal couple, Queen Juliana, Prince Bernhard and their three younger daughters, and Claus's widowed mother, together with rank upon rank of blue-uniformed cavalry officers with high fur busbies. Said a watching Dutchman: "We look more military than the Germans...
...orchestra as "a menagerie of geniuses." To capture and keep these restless creatures has never been a simple matter, and in recent years they have displayed a growing tendency to burst out of their gilded but confining cages. Wearied by the iron regimen and routine of orchestra life, front-rank instrumentalists have defected by the dozens to the concert circuit and university faculties. Money is not the issue. They are not looking for bigger paychecks; they want a richer musical life. How to satisfy this craving is one of the principal problems facing today's big orchestras...