Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much foreboding, as they would have for Dday. In one sense their fears may be justified. New York City alone expects 50,000 to 100,000 of its residents to apply for abortions each year and faces the possibility that an invasion from outside the state and city may swell the applicant total to 250,000 or even 500,000. New York's other major cities expect a comparable demand that may well swamp their hospital facilities...
...lottery quotas to take (assuming relatively even monthly draft calls with a reduction around November because of the Congressional elections) would be to continue at the present rate of thirty per month, slipping perhaps to twenty or twenty-five in July or August as the pool begins to swell with recent graduates and men who pass physicals. Also, by then, all who graduated in June, 1969, will have exhausted their appeals and be draft able...
...those whose occupational deferments and student deferments lapse, the pool will swell still further. At the present rate, =230 or #240 would be reached by the eighth month, August (draft calls for May are up to ?145). Draft boards are required to return to number one each onth. Under the current system, it is possible that aspreviously deferred men whose numbers have already been reached join the pool, the Pentagon will have to go a much shorter way down the list of numbers to fill its quota-perhaps only as far as =200 in September or later months. Thus...
NASA was faced with a painful choice. If Mattingly were allowed to go on the mission, he might well be disabled by the disease (which can blur vision and swell the joints in the hand), perhaps while alone in orbit around the moon. If the mission were delayed until the next practical launch date, May 9, the extra cost would be $800,000 and there might also be some deterioration of the Saturn systems. In contrast, there was the possibility of replacing Mattingly with his back-up crewman, John Swigert, who was found to have immunity against rubella. But Swigert...
...Swell. Girl and I can make it fine from there...