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...ratings; this season, attracting a youthful following that regards them as hippies with haircuts, it has consistently ranked among the top variety shows. On the opening program in September, CBS showed signs of giving in a little. The network approved the guest appearance of Folk Singer Pete Seeger, who had been blackballed by the networks since he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. But then CBS turned right around and banned one of Seeger's songs, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, because of its obvious reference to President Johnson's handling...
...religious beliefs were even more conservative than the ones that the Supreme Court accepted for CO in the Seeger decision. My hearing officer was totally unsympathetic. There was little I could do, unless I was a Quaker in the pious, conventional sense. They have an image of what a religious person is, and I'm not that. There's nothing wrong with my case. [Ferber's lawyer assured him they could win in court.] I had all my political and religious activities...
...landmark case Seeger decision of 1964, the Supreme Court broadened its definition of conscientious objection by including those who could demonstrate "a sincere and meaningful belief which occupies in the life of its possessor a place parallel to that filled by the God of those admittedly qualifying for the exemption...
Once they skirt the stark alternatives of the Supreme Being question, Harvard CO's take advantage of Seeger's invitation to individualism, often enlisting the help of philosophers and writers to help them express their objections to war. "It's really amazing the people they bring in to support their objection," a draft advisor in the Square marvelled. "I've just recently seen a couple of Lao-tzu types," he added...
...virtue of II-S, most Harvard CO's expect to have to go through a fight upon graduation. It is unlikely that a Harvard CO would win his case at the local board level because his unorthodox basis of objection is generally acceptable only in the spirit of the Seeger decision, which has not yet pervaded the local boards...