Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...much of the verbiage was repetitive, so much of the canned rally routine was familiar, that boredom and the hot sun (90° by midafternoon) were able to distract from the main business at hand. Some of the less inhibited youngsters stripped and went wading in the nearby Reflecting Pool...
...lottery peaks that month and then regresses. not reaching 250 again. some one with 250 not available that month might be exempt from the draft. Or would he? Could the man who was 250 and was drafted file a suit if other 250's who were not in the pool that month...
...selective service law indicates that if your number is called in 1970 while you are 1-A (but undergoing appeals) then you are placed at the top of the 1971 pool. Those still appealing on December 31. 1970. whose numbers have been reached will be taken as soon as their appeals run out. The law also states that anyone who is 1-A and draftable on the last day of the year and whose lottery number is not reached is placed into a second priority pool-composed of men not to be touched until all the lottery numbers have been...
AMBIGUITY arises if your number was reached in September when your appeal was being processed (say your number is 250) but-because of the rapidly growing pool-when you finally enter the pool, say in November or December, the lottery does not reach 250. Are you draft-able because your number has been reached, or are you free because you were draft-able on the last day of the year and your number was not reached? Admittedly this is a somewhat unlikely situation and would affect only a few people, but it raises some interesting legal questions and could create...
...would be drafted, many draft boards continued to grant deferments to people for cloudy reasons. It is no coincidence that most of the people with borderline cases who received deferments without much hassle had lottery numbers over 300-numbers which won't be reached this year because the pool is so big. Therefore draft boards weren't giving anything away by granting these people deferments-they are saving them for next year when the pool will be smaller. This is similar to granting deferments to young people under the old system. To prevent men from escaping their claws, they encourage...