Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteer army, though they might offer the latter as a long-range goal. Commission sources say both ideas are too extreme, both require much more study before they can be considered practical alternatives to the present draft. The Commission, the sources say, will make detailed recommendations for reform of the present Selective Service System...
...When people talk about compulsory national service," says Milton J. Friedman, the bantam cock of conservative economics, "it brings to mind Hitler's Jugend. It's so much warmed-over collectivism packaged to look like draft reform...
...Reform in Selective Service will appear Monday...
...real joke is that suddenly social scientists have decided that the government ought to give them a colossal laboratory -- the military establishment and the attendant Selective Service System. And with pressure for draft reform coming from the most respectable places, they just might...
...social scientists are not interested only in stacking up data; they are advocating drastic reform, and it is from their work that politicians draw the ideas and phrases which are daily displayed as part of the debate on the draft, Partly the scientists are excited by the prospect of having their theories tested, partly they are excited that the government, after years of sullen hostility to academics, is soliciting their advice...