Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America back to work." Calling political prospects "pretty scary," G.O.P. Senator Robert Dole, who barely won re-election in Kansas last fall amid the general debacle for the G.O.P., commented wryly: "It may turn out that 1974 was the good year for a Republican to be on the ballot...
...claims to have exercised no interest in Harvard Square politics and never held a position in the Chamber of Commerce, several Cambridge reformers insist that he was a force even Crane had to reckon with. He still exerts influence as treasurer for select CCA candidates on the Cambridge ballot...
...instead of the conciliatory neutrality they prefer. But he seemed to have some trouble explaining just what his Third Force is and who it speaks for. He says he has a lot of friends in the army--and he laughs, recounting how soldiers used to be sent to stuff ballot-boxes against him, but when the votes were counted it turned out they had voted for him. And he says that the army is starting to turn against the Thieu government. Even if Congress votes the 5,300 million emergency aid President Ford has requested--like all the non-official...
...Javits. Although the Senate Democratic Caucus continued its practice of naming committee chairmen on the basis of seniority for the current two-year Congress, it decided to follow the lead of the House for the session beginning in 1977; at that time the caucus will select chairmen by secret ballot. The Democrats also voted to open all committee meetings and joint House-Senate conference deliberations to the public, except when committee members decide that they must be closed for any of four specific reasons: to protect national security secrets, foreign trade information, the reputations of individuals and the identity...
Unfortunately, the committee that will choose the new Corporation member doesn't have to listen to anyone besides its own members. But the selection process for new Overseers is far less closed. Alumni can, by petition, add new names to the ballot besides the official AHA-sanctioned ones--a process that has worked and won Overseers' elections in the past. Alumni should begin to propose new nominees. The Governing Boards need more women and a much broader spectrum of social, economic and political backgrounds than they have...