Word: democratically
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Also, Wendy L. Moonan, editor of Juris Doctor Magazine; E. Eugene Pell '59, chief of Foreign News Service, Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in London; James R. Scudder, assistant city editor of The Arkansas Democrat, Little Rock, Ark.; Elaane Shannon, Washington correspondent for The Nashville Tennessean; and Joseph D. Whitaker, reporter for The Washington Post...
...presidential candidate William McKinley convert Frank Nixon, the president's father and previously a confirmed Democrat, to confirmed Republicanism...
Schmidt, the former Finance Minister, apportioned the seats in his coalition Cabinet in almost the same ratio as they were in Brandt's: eleven Social Democrats and four Free Democrats. About half of the incumbent Ministers retained their portfolios. The most significant change was the departure of Free Democrat Chief Walter Scheel as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister. Last week he was elected to a five-year term as West Germany's President, a ceremonial office with little real power...
Scheel's successor as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister is another Free Democrat: portly, bumptious Hans-Dietrich Genscher, 47, possibly the least likely top diplomat in West German history. Genscher has virtually no experience in foreign affairs and speaks only German. As Minister of the Interior since 1969, he encouraged modernization of German police departments and established a strong law-and-order image by capturing the Baader-Meinhof gang of bomb-throwing anarchists. Genscher lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and began a tough program to protect the environment. In an April poll, he ranked just behind...
...will the public respond? Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia had his doubts. On a recent road trip, he said, he found that no fewer than 63% of all drivers were exceeding the still-in-effect 55 m.p.h. national speed limit. Added Senator Henry M. Jackson, Democrat of Washington: "There is no direct evidence to support the contention that by raising the price you are going to ration the amount of gasoline that will be available." On the other hand, Congress and the Nixon Administration are extremely reluctant to impose such mandatory conservation measures as gasoline rationing...