Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name of Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, China continued last week to try to re-establish some measure of stability. Out of Peking's white-tiled Municipal Party Headquarters trudged hundreds of Red Guards, bearing their bedrolls and belongings. Only recently the chosen shock troops of Mao's purge, the youngsters had been evicted by government edict from their erstwhile headquarters and dormitory. They chucked their possessions into waiting army trucks and were driven out of the city and presumably back to school or work on the farms...
James L. Shuman '68 has drafted six amendments to the HDC constitution, including one that would completely revise the system by which the executive committee is chosen. At present, the five-man committee which selects Loeb shows and directors choose its own members...
...draft lottery should be instituted for physically and mentally qualified 19-year-olds. Those chosen would either serve immediately or postpone service until their sophomore year of college. Present students could complete the degree for which they are now working and then enter the lottery pool of that year's 19-year-olds...
...vote of the full House membership flagrantly disregarded the recommendations of a bipartisan committee chosen to investigate the numerous charges against Powell. The committee's proposals were severe -- Powell was to be censured, deprived of his seniority, fined $40,000, but seated. Three-hundred-seven congressmen didn't think that sufficient. Their ranks included, predictably, almost every representative from the South...
...Press feel that any work of literature that could win the approval of an immortal like M. Jean, who has chosen to remain anonymous by omitting his last name (there is a story, concerning M. Jean and this book, perhaps apocryphal, perhaps untrue--that when M. Jean was nominated for the Academic Francaise, 13,000 volumes of Miss Trepan's books were found in the meeting room of those immortels who were to decide on his admission. No one knows how they got there. It is a very simple story) is worthy of publication on our list. And we will...