Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among those students who say they will go to jail if their applications for deferment are rejected (a leading example of this will probably be seen among students in the non-sciences who request 2-S deferments for graduate work) 77 per cent advocate immediate withdrawal. The remaining 23 per cent want the military effort reduced. Of those who threaten to leave the country if called for induction, 71 per cent call for immediate withdrawal while 26 per cent want the war effort phased down
...mystique of gold is not fully grasped by most Americans, who lack the Midas complex of Charles de Gaulle and other foreigners. McGeorge Bundy was not quite right when he cracked that only the greedy, the frightened, country folk and Frenchmen love gold. Anybody who has seen his fortunes dissipated by recurrent invasions, inflations and devaluations views gold as a safer haven than any paper money. Men die to dig gold out of two-mile-deep mines and then bury it in hermetically sealed vaults because, when all other currencies fail, gold can buy anything, anywhere. Particularly prized by political...
Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder never played pro football. He has only seen one game this year, and if he so much as said hello to a pro coach or player, somebody would probably call a cop. Jimmy the Greek is an oddsmaker-one of those faceless fellows who set a betting line on pro games for bookies and their clients...
...hospital did not even know what had happened to this unidentified patient since he returned to the U.S. As for Proulx and five others, said the hospital spokesman, they had had routine surgery for decompression of the spinal cord, followed by physiotherapy, with moderate benefit, as is usually seen in such cases...
...think the Resistance is making a dent that will carry over. If nothing else, it's producing a pretty tough, rugged bunch of people dedicated to change. Whether or not they go to prison, they've done a lot and grown up an awful lot. I've seen lives change in days. Some come out of prison raring to go. One guy was in jail for 14 months, was out less than a day, dropped by our office, picked up a thousand leaflets, and left to hand them...