Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from York's Tennessee mountain home, kicked off a campaign to raise the cash. With Mister Sam and Bob Kennedy contributing $1,000 apiece, and other fund raisers (among them: Cinemactor Gary Cooper, who starred in the 1941 film biography that brought about the veteran's tax bind) pitching in, the drive shot over the top last week. Sergeant York will be hounded no more...
...fair game since he had supported the independent presidential-elector slate in Mississippi rather than Kennedy-Johnson". Rayburn vacillated between the purge and his three-new-member plan, a less drastic break with House traditions and Southern feelings. His mind once made up on committee packing, he announced a "binding" Democratic caucus, a rare device by which a two-thirds vote can bind all members of the party to vote for a particular proposal. Again Mister Sam wavered, decided that a binding caucus would injure Southern feelings too deeply, and that he could win without it anyway...
...courses completed with A or B is too low. A B-average in all 16 1/2 courses, without the superfluous requirement of two additional fields, would provide adequate safeguards for the College's "realm of the intellect." The C.E.P. proposal has one other fault. It would bind a person to an Honors program in the senior year, including a thesis, unless the student opts for a degree in General Studies earlier. An individual should gain an exposure to thesis research--perhaps a term--before making an irrevocable decision...
...Australia, where quadrigamy may tempt some men but is illegal for all, the portly and jovial Sultan of Pahang, ruler of Malaya's largest state, arrived with one of his four wives, pretty Che' Haabah Bind Ahmad, 25, gave fascinated Down Under newsmen an illustration of marital democracy in action. He explained that each of his wives has her own eight-room, air-conditioned palace, and each takes turns in appearing with him at official ceremonies and traveling with him. Che' reported that she and the other three "get on very well," happily observed that "when...
...least lip service to its authority, the World Court at The Hague has never been permitted to live up to its resounding name. Properly known as the International Court of Justice, it is the top U.N. judicial tribunal, but no major power (including the U.S.) is yet willing to bind itself unconditionally to accept the court's decisions...