Word: council
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hill. Perhaps, like many career politicians, he cannot abide private life. Or perhaps he wants to protect his party from the candidacy of Novelist Norman Mailer, who has been threatening to seek the nomination with Jimmy Breslin, journalist, author and character-about-town, as his running mate for city council president...
...nine Houses and the freshman class will each elect one candidate. From this list of ten, three undergraduate members will be chosen by lot by a member of the Committee on Organization in the presence of the candidates. The House Committees of the respective houses and the Freshman Council will be charged with the responsibility of establishing procedures for the election of their candidates...
This was about 12:45 p.m. From that time on, there were almost continuous discussions involving the President of the Executive Council of Deans, the Administrative Board of Harvard College, and the Masters of the Houses...
Even though such drastic measures so far seem unlikely, the Big Four would accomplish a lot if they achieved unity among themselves. But the results of last week's proceeding in the Security Council were hardly encouraging. As they have done for months, Russia and France both voted to condemn Israel for an airstrike on Jordan while taking no note whatsoever of the raids from Jordan that provoked the Israeli retaliation. The U.S. and Britain? They abstained...
...most visible changes in the mood of funerals are being made by Catholics. Charged by a decree of the Second Vatican Council to put greater emphasis on "the paschal character of Christian death," more and more bishops are allowing an experimental "white funeral," a service as different from the old requiem Mass as Easter is from Good Friday. Dressed in white vestments instead of the traditional black, the priest meets the coffin at the church door, recalling the rite of baptism that ties the Christian to Jesus. "If in union with Christ we have imitated his death," declares the priest...