Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Will 2-S, by preventing students from being drafted, make expansion of the war impossible? Class rank and draft exams were instituted precisely to facilitate selecting students for the draft each fall by determining who won't get 2-S. If these methods were abolished, the government could as a last resort use random selection as a basis for not granting deferments. It will draft students to the extent that it needs the manpower as the war expands. In the long run, there will be no way for millions of students to get out. By defending 2-S, by arguing...
...what to do about it. They are anxious to find niches of personal safety; they are divided in many ways against themselves. Radicals have to fight the illusion of individual outs, win large numbers of people to action that will solidify divided groups. We should organize against class rank and draft tests not because this will save people individually, a clear illusion, but because in such a fight we can unify ourselves as students, become clearer about the nature of the war, prepare ourselves to fight against the government's policies from a stronger position...
...most important individuals" and said that he would have arrested him this week. The District Attorney, Ferrie had told reporters, believed that he had been the getaway pilot for Lee Harvey Oswald's coconspirators. What was Garrison's evidence? He refused to say, but-in what must rank as one of the most brilliant non sequiturs of the year -referred to a pleasure trip that Ferrie had made to southern Texas a few hours after the assassination: "We felt that it was rather peculiar that a man would suddenly take a trip to south Texas when everybody else...
Frequent Critic. A provocative commentator who loved to argue his viewpoints-and sometimes irritated others by pushing them too aggressively-Fall was respected for his courage and knowledge even by those who disagreed with him. Established in the front rank of Viet Nam experts, he was heard-if not always heeded-by official Washington, and frequently lectured at the National War College. A difficult and sometimes irascible man, he could not abide experts who did not do their homework, or those who saw the complicated struggle in black and white. He disdained anyone who pontificated about the war without getting...
...wealthy Puerto Rican businessman (board chairman for Philip Morris de Puerto Rico), tall, tousle-haired "Charlito" Pasarell, 23, would undoubtedly rank No. 1 in the world if the girls in the gallery got to vote. And until last year, when he finally came into his own by winning the Indoor...