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...Better or Worse. Selective Service broadened its hunt for soldiers. It sent a summary order to draft boards to draw tighter the nets around men in the 26-37 group who are not in essential jobs; it also ordered boards to re-examine (on the basis of new, lower Army physical standards) some 847,000 4-Fs who once, but no longer, held essential jobs...
...Curtis Colepaugh, his renegade companion, was a weak-faced, gangling young man who had grown up in Connecticut, had somehow developed a sentimental sense of attachment to "beautiful Germany." He had graduated from Farragut Academy in New Jersey, flunked out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Grabbed later as a draft dodger, he joined the Navy, put on such a show of love for the Germans that the Navy discharged him. From then on, it was easy-for a while. Colepaugh sailed to Europe as a messboy on the diplomatic exchange liner Gripsholm, jumped ship at Lisbon, and presented himself...
With all this dark-of-the-moon melodrama behind them, the pair traveled confidently to Bangor, Boston and New York. They had a set of admirably forged draft cards, $60,000 in U.S. currency, and a fistful of diamonds. In Manhattan they browsed in radio shops, openly buying parts for a radio transmitter. Also they sampled the city's night life-in less than four weeks they managed to spend $3,425 of the Third Reich's funds...
Three elections in two months were one too many for the Guatemalans. Only 56,000 (one-fifth of those who voted in the presidential elections) turned out to choose members for a constituyente (constitutional convention) which will draft a new constitution for the country. Some Guatemalans had no idea what a constituyente was. Besides, even under the tyrannical rule of Dictator Jorge Ubico, they had had a constitution-one "so beautiful that it would make you weep." They felt that what they needed was a president who would treat them right. Most Guatemalans (even the distrustful Indians who form...
...making some of his own. He banged out a 650-word article and slapped it on Page One. Sample: "Half-drunk women heard their drunker men tell why this bloody mess, so far, far away would be over before another New Year. . . . They had been in combat-with their draft boards. . . . They had their stripes-deferment stripes. . . . They wondered when all the killing would be over and got drunk doing...