Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumph in Arkansas was simply a nascency. And it was based squarely on the enlightened issues that Democratic politics had evaded for decades in Dixie. While his opponent, James ("Justice Jim") Johnson, 42, inveighed against the "other" Johnson's Great Society, Rockefeller talked about education, roads, governmental reform and accelerated economic progress for Arkansas...
Students and administrators from Antioch had billed the conference as an examination of the influence of Selective Service on colleges today. A list of possible modifications, voted by the delegates, was to be submitted to the Presidential commission now studying Selective Service reform...
Undoubtedly most people who feel the present draft system is pretty good did not bother to make the long trek out to Ohio for a conference based on the premise that it needs reform. Almost everyone, who did come was concerned with the ethics of the draft; they obviously constituted a more radical segment of the intellectual community than those who stayed at home. And while invitations were mailed out to hundreds of universities and military colleges across the country, only about 40 colleges were represented...
...Ripon Society called yesterday for a gradual elimination of the draft. The Cambridge-based organization of young, progressive Republicans termed the present use of conscription "antithetic to a free society" and condemned the Johnson Administration for trying to "stymie reform" by methods aimed at preventing thorough debate...
Tomorrow's Church. As it turned out, the Pope's powerful warning against excessive reform represented a clear case of overkill, and was clearly intended as a guide to future congregations rather than as a commentary on the work done by this year's group. Delegates to the congregation, chiefly older and more conservative members of the Society, have been pointedly prudent regarding change. Winding up business last week, the congregation referred certain big questions regarding the structure of the Society, such as whether or not to tamper with the fourth vow, to committee for further study...