Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pakistan's most crucial political issue is whether or not the nation's first general elections, scheduled for next November, will provide a common ballot for all voters or separate ballots (and separate candidates) for Moslem, Hindu, Christian and other minorities...
Submerging their other differences, 45 of the National Assembly's 80 members pledged themselves to support a common ballot, demanded that President Mirza name Republican Party Leader Malik Firoz Khan Noon, a onetime protege of Pakistan's famed Founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to form a caretaker government to rule until next year's general elections. If his 45-man majority stands firm and Prime Minister Noon brings about elections next year with a common ballot, Pakistan will have taken a long step along the road to political stability...
...techniques. The older film gets, the worse its stench. Says Daniel Jones, chief film scout for NBC's Project 20: "I go into an old film vault like a truffle hound. I go to the cans that smell worst first." Then he dumps water on them against the common risk that the old film may burst spontaneously into flames...
...traffic around Cambridge Common will be established for a trial period starting March 1, under an ordinance passed by the City Council yesterday. The change is part of a plan to have a complex of one-way streets surrounding the Common and the Yard...
Captain of Traffic, Edward Tierney, told the Council that under the trial plan, traffic will move toward Harvard Square only on Garden Street, toward Somerville on Mass. Ave. along the section which borders on the Common, and from Mass. Ave. to Garden Street along Waterhouse Street...