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The "First Priority Selection Group" includes those men who reached the age of 19 in 1970, received their lottery numbers at the July drawing, and have not been deferred or exempted.
Some of the martians are currently on display at the National Geographic Building, and another exhibit will open this Spring in Harrisburg, Pa.
Scientists seem to find the creatures fascinating. "I can hardly walk into an observatory anywhere without seeing one on the wall," Menzel said. Science-fiction fans also delight in the martians, and Galaxy Magazine published a large color section of them last year.
Menzel, who served as a "trouble-shooter" for the Air Force during the flying saucer craze, is well-know as a debunker of reports that unidentified flying objects are actually spacecraft from another planet. He is the author of Astronomy, a popular survey of the field, published last month by...
Men between the ages 20 and 26 who received their lottery numbers in November 1969-and who have not yet been called-remain eligible for induction in the first three months of next year if they were classified I-A or I-A-O at the end of 1970 and...