Search Details

Word: deadlocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Victor Andrés Belaúnde, 82, Peruvian Ambassador to the U.N. and uncle of his country's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, who was among the U.N.'s founding fathers at San Francisco in 1945, played a leading role in breaking the East-West deadlock over admission of 16 new members in 1955, and saw his reward when he was elected president of the General Assembly in 1959; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 23, 1966 | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...Supreme Court has slashed through the Gordian knot of legal complications entangling the election of Georgia's next governor by ruling that the state legislature can choose between Democrat Lester G. Maddox and Republican Howard H. (Bo) Callaway. The deadlock, created when neither candidate gained an absolute majority in the general election, must be broken. But the way in which the Court has decided to settle the contest means that the candidate with fewer votes may emerge the winner, a result hardly consistent with some of the Court's other recent rulings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gordian Knot | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...deadlock stirred a Dixie-dozen legal reactions. The state attorney general petitioned Atlanta's federal district court to uphold the legislature's right to name the Governor. The American Civil Liberties Union filed two suits in the same court to void the anachronistic constitutional provision and order a new election. Callaway supporters asked the court to order a runoff between Callaway and Maddox, with write-ins barred. Yet another petition, brought by pro-Arnall forces, sought to permit write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States: Winners Wanted | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...left confusion as the only constant, even among the professional seers. An NBC poll by Oliver Quayle showed a pronounced trend for Rockefeller, while a New York Daily News canvass found O'Connor improving on a slight 3.6% lead. An ABC poll by John Kraft reported a near deadlock with O'Connor 2% ahead and the undecided still at 13%. All three indicated the minor-party candidates could get about 20% of the vote between them. Thus, it was not even certain that the winner would have a majority mandate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Costly Confusion | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...committee will also reconsider its vote on the specific Carmichael case tonight, at the request of Committeewoman Barbara Ackerman. However, it is expected that this vote will end in the same 3-3 deadlock which prohibited the YD's from using Rindge originally...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: City's School Committee To Debate Rindge Pact | 11/1/1966 | See Source »

Previous | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | Next