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...Fine, unless a minority is of a different race, religion or culture, and has no hope of be coming a majority. Then there must either be continual friction, as in Northern Ireland or Cyprus, or else a guarantee of protected minority rights that a majority cannot overturn. John C. Calhoun believed the South to be such a permanent minority in need of protection. So he argued for a "concurrent majority" by which Government "regards interests as well as numbers," takes "the sense of each," and arrives at a solution acceptable to all. This process involved a kind of minority veto...
Coach Jim Calhoun's Northeastern team, choking from a host of turnovers and a paltry 29.6 per cent shooting percentage in the first half, never regained their wind until the final minutes of play...
...Calhoun is coach of the Northeastern squad that Harvard is to face just after the Quaker City Tournament. "Satch has done a heck of a job over there," Calhoun said yesterday. Calhoun has seen the Crimson play several times and was most impressed by the "super-D" and the patience on offense that the Crimson exhibited...
...implications of Agnew's request. The men worked late into the night, studying and restudying Agnew's carefully drafted letter and reviewing the House's precedents and practices. To support his request, Agnew had cited an 1827 investigation by a House committee that cleared Vice President John C. Calhoun of charges that he had illegally profited from a Government contract. But there was one key difference between his case and Agnew's: the allegations against Calhoun had been made merely in a newspaper article. Rodino decided that Calhoun would not help Agnew...
SCHLESINGER: Both Vice Presidents Colfax and Calhoun, the two cases often cited, involved actions done before they became Vice President. But they don't provide a clear precedent. In the Calhoun case, the House accepted the responsibility to appoint a select committee to investigate charges made against Calhoun some years before. In the Colfax case, it declined to do so. In the Agnew case, not only do the two precedents glance in different directions, but we aren't even clear that the complaints against him do not spill over into his vice presidency...