Word: mickelson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...registrants to be inducted. The BDRG organizes "bussing teams," which meet the inductees at 6 a.m. while they are waiting for the bus in front of their local draft boards. "The first thing we ask is how many want to go to Vietnam," says director Mike Mickelson, "and usually no more than one or two will raise their hands." The BDRG teams advise them on the possibilities of avoiding service and often able to enter the bus with the inductees...
...Disappointingly few have refused induction, but the effort is still having an appreciable effect," says Mickelson, a 21-year-old Dartmouth graduate...
...John Pennington III '68, on leave from Harvard since November, and Michael G. Mickelson, a 1967 graduate of Dartmouth, said they plan to refuse induction on Monday morning when they will report to the Boston Army Base as ordered by their draft boards...
Cronkite was not long in getting the beast under control. In 1952, CBS News Director Sig Mickelson picked him to anchor the network's coverage of the national political conventions, and he did such a workmanlike job that he found himself in the top rank of newscasters. Suddenly he was a star. He began to have his own news shows-Twentieth Century and Eyewitness to History...
...many traits in common. Almost all of them decided early in life to be their own bosses. Most of them started earning money while still children: by the time he was 13, Arthur Carlsberg had been a caddy, gardener, seed salesman and fruit trader. Many of them, like Merlyn Mickelson, never went to college; others, like Arthur Decio and Charles Bluhdorn, impatiently dropped out of college in order to study in the marketplace. At the beginning of their careers, they lived lean, often taking shoestring salaries in order to pump profits back into their enterprises. In his first plant, Mickelson...