Word: electable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need to elect a President in the prime of life who has broad national and international experience," says the candidate. "I have had eight years of experience in agriculture, in keeping profit-and-loss records on livestock." He is also well educated: he is a Rhodes scholar and holds a master's degree in public administration and a law degree from Harvard...
...never to get a Cardinal's red hat. In 1957 Sheen abruptly gave up his TV shows. At age 71, he became a controversial innovator as Bishop of Rochester. Known till then as a conservative, he put a civil rights activist on his staff, let parish priests elect his top aide and "taxed" church construction projects to help the poor. In 1967 he called on President Johnson to withdraw all troops from Viet Nam. But when he tried to sell a church and give the money to the poor without consulting the parishioners, he was forced to reverse himself...
Rules are rules in Tennessee. When it came time to elect the mayor in Morrison, a hamlet of 547 people, no one wanted to run, but the county election commission insisted that an election be held anyway. No candidate emerged, but that was no problem: 43 out of 49 Morrison voters who showed up simply wrote the name of incumbent Mayor Harris Jacobs Jr. on the blank ballots. "We're not really backward or illiterate," explains Jacobs, a supervisor at an Air Force test facility who has served by default since 1969. "This is a nice little town with...
...must have gone mad to countenance the evolution of such an absurd system to elect a President. That important men like Kennedy and Baker and Brown are already devoting most of their not inconsiderable abilities to elect themselves to a presidency that begins in January 1981 is incredible. That the President, with his incalculable responsibility, must concentrate for over one-quarter of his tenure on his re-election is perilous for the nation. That millions will be spent on the campaign rather than to alleviate the suffering in Cambodia is obscene. Yet this insane system does not guarantee the best...
...bill now goes to the full Senate, where it will face some fierce lobbying. Douglas Fraser, the president of the U. A.W. and a director-elect of Chrysler, protests that a wage freeze is ridiculous. Still, the freeze seems to have a good chance of passing. Even if it fails, the Senate bill will differ markedly from the Administration-designed aid package soon going before the House. There is not much time to resolve the differences. Congress aims to recess by Dec. 21, and probably will not convene before Jan. 22. Chrysler has warned that if it does...