Word: actioneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another development, defeated Councillor Charles A. Watson will ask the Election Commission, pending a District Court decision Nov. 23, for a recount. Watson said that should the Court rule the 104 allegedly questionable absentee ballots invalid such action could "materially affect the distribution of surplus votes...
Seeking Trouble? What was Red China up to? Western specialists in Hong Kong had originally conjectured the continuing Chinese difficulties in Tibet explained its action. The rebellion could not be crushed until Tibetan hope for outside help was extinguished. Ergo, India, which had given asylum to the Dalai Lama and to 13,000 Tibetan refugees, must be shown up as unwilling or unable to help...
...military chiefs hold themselves entirely apart from political discussions." And in his first order of the day to the troops in Algeria, as President and "Chief of the Armies," De Gaulle himself sternly declared: "In full knowledge of the facts, I have fixed what must be our course of action in Algeria," no less sternly demanded of the army "devotion and discipline in the service of France...
...Writing is fast becoming the lost activity in the educational process." Last week this statement by able Dean of Admissions Eugene S. Wilson of Amherst College sparked significant action at the annual meeting of the powerful College Entrance Examination Board in Manhattan. Speaking for 15 New England colleges, Dean Wilson had a fairly startling suggestion: add an English essay question to C.E.E.B.'s objective-question tests, the chief divining rod for admission to 287 U.S. colleges and universities. With some misgivings, the meeting finally approved Dean Wilson's urgent proposal. Result: next year, after a decade of multiple...
Greenough was not the only one surprised by the board's action. Previous top candidate for the job: Greenough's own boss, James P. Newell, 57, vice president of operations. Greenough had not been considered in the running. But railroadmen gossiped that other vice presidents were scrambling so hotly for the job that the board decided to pass over all of them, picked Greenough as the man who could work best with the contending factions...