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...Draftees will be tapped by "fair and impartial random" selection-a lottery-like concept that Johnson acronymously dubbed "FAIR...
...preventing students from being drafted, make expansion of the war impossible? Class rank and draft exams were instituted precisely to facilitate selecting students for the draft each fall by determining who won't get 2-S. If these methods were abolished, the government could as a last resort use random selection as a basis for not granting deferments. It will draft students to the extent that it needs the manpower as the war expands. In the long run, there will be no way for millions of students to get out. By defending 2-S, by arguing that it offers students...
Clubs should accomodate the preference of sophomores as far as possible, the report states. After that, they should take applicants at random...
Ever since photography was developed in the 19th century, painters have been fascinated not only by the camera's objectivity but also by its ability to convey emotion. In the beginning, such drama lay primarily in the camera's power to capture and freeze a random instant in time. But with the arrival of motion pictures, the telephoto lens, journalistic photography and television, the camera has developed a new vocabulary of images. Spain's Juan Genovès, 37, calls it "graphic language, the language of the photographer." In his show at London's Marlborough Fine...
...days the President's Commission on the Draft will release its plans to reform the Selective Service System. The indications are that the Commission will propose the gradual abolition of the 2-S student deferment and the institution of a lottery -- a system which would draft men at random from a pool of all 18 and 19-year-olds mentally and physically fit to serve. The lottery should be enacted by Congress when the present Selective Service Act expires in June...