Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the new proposal would still not touch the estimated 20% of the 18-year-olds who are physically unfit for service, it followed closely along the line laid down by Harvard's President James B. Conant, who wanted to draft all teenagers without exception (TIME, Dec. 18). In addition, the Defense Department hoped to raise the term of service from 21 months to somewhere between 27 and 30 months, and to plug some of the deferment loopholes which had all but depleted the 19-to 26-year-old group of potential draftees...
...bill is not aimed at any particular Person," MeCarthy started, "but it passed, 1 doubt that Professor Shapley would be fit to teach." Last year, McCarthy accused Harlow shapley, director of the College Observatory, of being unfit to teach because of alleged Communist affiliations shortly after Senator Joseph A, McCarthy (R-Wiscongin) asserted that Shapley "maintained Communist connections...
Under the association's program, there would be no exemptions. The physically unfit could be given useful jobs in noncombat branches of the armed forces. After two years' service, every man should be assigned automatically to a reserve unit. To get started immediately, the association urged a ten-year extension of the Selective Service...
Also present at the meeting in the Pentagon, held Wednesday, were representatives of the Association of American Universities, headed by Gordon Gray, president of the University of South Carolina. Both groups endorsed U.M.S., which could draft all men at 18, even those unfit for combat...
...burden would fall on the nation's youth, 1,100,000 of whom turn 18 every year. Assuming that 30% of them would be rejected as physically or mentally unfit, the fit would be barely enough to fill the annual quota of 750,000. Under the present law they could volunteer or be drafted. But last week, adding confusion and solving nothing, President Truman raised the question again of universal training. He left out the "military," as he always does in discussing the ticklish subject. To the convention of National Guardsmen the President said: "Eight times I have asked...