Word: chosen
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FICTION 1. The Chosen, Potok (2 last week...
...annual report on the Harvard Law School to University President Nathan Pusey has just been published. An excerpt: "More and more law school faculties have come to be looked on as quarries from which persons may be chosen for important posts in public service. On numerous occasions they have left the Law School faculty, often on very short notice. But the process is difficult. The disruption is considerable, and one may be pardoned for wishing at times that his faculty was somewhat less attractive to the practical world...
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...enrollment of all men between 20 and 45, armed opposition arose in four of the seven Midwest states. In Kentucky, a guard was needed to protect draft officials; in Cleveland, a mob went beyond tearing up draft cards-it destroyed the box from which draftees' names were chosen. When the first names were drawn in New York City, a general uprising followed. Police Superintendent John Kennedy tried in vain to calm the rioters. The mob, reported one witness, "beat him, dragged him through the streets by his head, pitched him into a horsepond, rolled him into mud gutters, dragged...
Under the new Constitution, 65 of the 563 seats in Parliament will still be chosen personally by el Caudillo. Two weeks ago, Franco stopped off in Madrid from a summer holiday in Galicia, announced his choices, then left again for some hunting in Andalucia. An other 394 members of Parliament will be picked by Spain's municipal councilmen, trade unions, Falange, and professional and cultural organizations. The big change will come in the selection of the remaining 104 members. They will be popularly elected by Spain's family heads and married women over 21, representing half of Spain...