Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...single-starred Puerto Rican flags-suggestively like the Cuban flag with its colors reversed-waved from poles or decorated clothing. Berets were of nearly as many colors as there were shades of people present. Hardly a moment was silent between chants-almost exclusively in Spanish-rejecting the draft for Puerto Rican men, supporting "anti-imperialist" revolutions, or simply proclaiming "Viva Puerto Rico libre." The chants were often accompanied by raised fists; but the fists occasionally turned to fingers when the march happened by a United States flag...
...blend of jazz and gospel, with a glossy Stan Kenton sound and a chorus singing Sonny's simple lyrics-about peace and freedom, with a little protest thrown in. His career began in Cincinnati, where he wrote his first song before he was eight. Through a draft-board mix-up in 1943, Sonny was tapped for the Marines when he was only 14, got out, then served in the Navy from 1945 to 1948. By the time he was discharged, he had become a good clarinetist and saxophonist, as well as a good lightweight boxer. He settled in south...
...went to school four years to learn a profession, and still I cannot get a job. I had to graduate from college in order to be unemployed." He is beginning to wonder if he was really as lucky as he once thought to draw number 365 in the draft lottery...
...Each draft board has its own ceiling that depends on conditions within its district, but now no draft board may have a ceiling above 195 this year...
Students with borderline draft numbers below 195 will be aided by Tarr's order. They may retain their student status for this year. If, next year, their numbers exceed the national ceiling, they can change to 1-A and so move into the second priority at the end of the year...