Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chaban-Delmas has other qualifications for Premier. He is a superb politician who can be counted on to keep Pompidou's fences well mended. The former Premier, Maurice Couve de Murville, was an inept campaigner who could not even win an Assembly seat from Paris' usually safe 7th arrondissement. Chaban-Delmas became mayor of Bordeaux at 32, replacing a socialist who had held the job for 19 years. He has been re-elected regularly because of his public works, which included the first bridges over the Garonne River built since the days of Napoleon III, and his high...
...Belmont Stakes will be run on June 7th, 15 miles from New York City at Elmont, Long Island. Will Majestic Prince become the ninth winner of the Triple Crown Trophy, joining Sir Barton (1919), Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), War Admiral (1937), Whirlaway (1941), Count Fleet (1943), Assault (1946), and Citation (1948)? It seems unlikely, for Majestic Prince has been scratched from the race by his trainer John Longden. Longden said that he did this out of consideration for the horse. One tends to believe that it is Mr. Longden's reputation that is at stake...
...article by James K. Glassman in the May 7th Crimson Supplement on the Future of the University, the Cambridge Electron Accelerator (CEA) is discussed as an example of Federal money being spent at Harvard. Indeed, because of its $4,500,000 budget in Fy 1969 which comes entirely from the Federal Government, Mr. Glassman has chosen a very good example...
...previous elections, lost its sole distinction in the seventh by voting 54% in favor of the referendum?almost the mirror opposite of France's 53% rejection. The city of Paris turned down the referendum 56% to 44%, and it could not win a majority even in the chic 7th, 8th and 16th arrondissements, the silk-stocking districts of Paris, and normally solid Gaullist. Women voters, who have made up another Gaullist bastion, gave 10% less than the 70% they mustered in 1962. Finally, and perhaps decisively, the young vote, which has recently eluded De Gaulle, was out in force: some...
...descendant of the 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia who, as an admiral, led the Spanish Armada against England...