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...absence of alert students, it has been easy to steamroll students into silent acquiescence when, as always, they are presented with a stage managed fait accompli. As a result, intellectual nullity has often been found impressive and even popular, and all that seems demanded of candidates is that they come suitably trailing clouds of au courant nationalist fervor...
Hints. The entire McGovern phenomenon-his progress from near-obscurity to something like a fait accompli-has left the Democratic Party in a state bordering on stupefaction. Only now, perhaps too late, are the party's regulars beginning to shake off their astonishment and think of ways to avert what many of them regard as the disaster of a McGovern candidacy. But thus far no one has produced a candidate, an organization or a plausible scenario to stop McGovern...
Thus, as it caromed out of the long and expensive primary spring, the slightly dazed Democratic Party found itself confronting something close to a fait accompli. Hubert Humphrey, far behind with 324½ delegates, vowed to fight on, in fading hopes that the convention arithmetic might still be changed. Maine's Edmund Muskie, an inactive candidate, late last week declined to take himself out of the race and free his 172 delegates...
...substantive issue of Pompidou's first referendum, held last Sunday, was not as controversial as De Gaulle's last. By now, most Frenchmen assume the expansion of the Market to be a fait accompli. The only real question was how many of the 30 million eligible voters could be lured away from "le weekend" and "la residence secondaire" to vote in what their President insisted was a pressing matter. The expectation was that about 60% of the voters would go to the polls, with about two-thirds of them in favor...
...March 3, Kaufman sent a letter to Harvard requesting a meeting to discuss cancellation or modification of the plans for the garage, as well as landscaping plans for the area. The letter particularly expressed the tenants' disquiet at being presented with a falt accompli in Harvard's letter of last June...