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...Made 149 "critical" occupations virtually draft-proof...
...this fails, the Administration has its Big Stick left: a labor draft such as proposed by the Austin-Wadsworth National Service...
Last week, before he had time to make these dope stories look good, Prich went off to the Army. His draft board reclassified him from 4F to lA; the Administration, sensitive to criticism of its under-38 bachelors, made no effort to defer him. Said Prich typically: "I guess they scraped the bottom of the manpower barrel and now they have to take the barrel...
...Fatima (center), Sultana of Kakul, Afghanistan, to President Warren G. Harding. Last week fast-talking Stephen Weinberg, who has pretended for 30 years to be assorted fascinating people, was arrested again. This time the charge was not playacting, but dramatic coaching. The FBI said Weinberg had been teaching prospective draft dodgers how to fake 4-F ailments...
...came up. First the charges against the detectives were dismissed on a legal technicality. Then police reported finding two convicts who swore that Brinkley had boasted he had killed Melendes in a fight in the cell. For a while Brinkley was hounded by police and FBI, charged with draft dodging, indicted for sexual perversion, perjury and, finally, for second-degree murder. Next came eminent physicians, who examined bits of skin tissue under a microscope, cast doubt that violence alone had caused Melendes' death. The Civil Liberties Committee, taking up Brinkley's case, could now find no witnesses...