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Nevertheless, say the programmers, the selective viewer should be encouraged by the unprecedented number of specials offered this season. After all, they explain, the audience cannot be selective unless it has something better or at least different to select from. On three successive nights recently, each network pre-empted all regularly scheduled series for specials...
...actress plans to hold auditions to select students, Hamlin said. He added that previous acting experience would probably not be a major criterion...
...only medical students receive graduate deferments, the eligibility pool would shrink slightly--to 1,090,000--a figure still far too large for current draft needs. The most vexing problem facing the President is how to select 360,000 draftees from this pool without instituting a random selection system, specifically forbidden him by Congress. The irony of the situation is that before the new law, the President could have instituted a random selection system without Congressional approval. But now he must either get Congress to adopt a random selection plan before June or devise a stop-gap system for this...
...male college graduates and first-year graduate students. The instrument of his decision will be the draft, and the problems it faces him with are complex. He will have to decide which graduate students to defer whether to induct the oldest or the youngest first, and how to select the 300,000 draftees from an eligible pool of more than one million. Neither official nor unofficial Washington knows what the President will decide, but there are already some clear indications of what to expect...
...this academic year, with the exception of students who are already candidates for their doctorate. They will continue to be deferred for a total of five years from the time they first started graduate work. The law also empowers the National Security Council -- headed by the President -- to select any number of fields of study for graduate deferments...