Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...from the White House, those there Thursday evening spent six hours planning strategy for the following day-mainly for their meeting with "Henry." It was a highly intense discussion between some of the most noted intellects of the country; they consumed two bottles of Cutty Sark Scotch in the process...
...drafted-those who are not only 1-A but have passed physicals and exhausted their appeals-will continue to in crease rapidly through the end of the year, and the Pentagon won't come close to exhausting all the lottery numbers. Those who manage to drag the appeals process into the next year will be placed in the top priority group for induction if their number has been reached this year...
...have already been reached join the pool, the Pentagon will have to go a much shorter way down the list of numbers to fill its quota-perhaps only as far as =200 in September or later months. Thus. it is mathematically possible that unless more effort is made to process people soon. a higher number will be reached in an early month than in a later one. The critical point is that the current speed of thirty numbers per month will slow up appreciably as the pool grows. Furthermore, there is a chance that the numbers will actually start...
...upcoming congressional elections will do little to make changes in the Congress. The seniority system. which gives Southerners such immense power, party loyalty, and fear of Presidential powers has gradually reduced the American congress to little more than a fancy debating society, using rational discourse and due process as excuses for inaction...
...attempt to involve students in the "system," students from 15 colleges, including Yale. Princeton, Dartmouth, and Columbia, have formed a group called "Movement for a New Congress." The group's efforts will focus on participation in the electoral process...