Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government had printed thousands of duplicate registration cards. In the new regime, Luis Somoza will sit in the Somoza-dominated Senate, tough Tachito will still command the national guard, and the only genuine opposition will have no voice in the legislature. Nevertheless, the U.S. chose to regard the election as a small evolutionary step toward representative democracy. In recent years the Somozas have instituted a few tentative reforms, have even permitted the opposition press to have its say. To encourage all concerned, U.S. diplomats let President-elect Schick know that he would be welcome if he wanted...
Turning to the problems of the RGA itself, Joanna C. Bartlett '63 suggested that many Radcliffe undergraduates have neither the desire nor the capability for self-government. She discussed the large number of "individualists" who are "so apathetic that in some dormitories it is practically impossible to elect RGA representatives...
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...current fiscal year. Another massive deficit lies ahead in fiscal 1964, even without a tax cut. Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, recently said that "sharp reductions in federal expenditures should precede any major reduction in tax rates." Colorado's Republican Senator-elect Peter H. Dominick declared last week that he "can't see any basis for reducing revenues without reducing spending at the same time...
...hilly Hong Kong, prestige is often a function of height: the socially elect live on "the Peak." and down below, in the central business district, a company's importance is apt to be judged by how tall its headquarters building is. Latest entrant in Hong Kong's corporate prestige race is the Hang Seng (Eternal Growth) Bank, which last week opened a 22-story building that is even taller than the Peking-controlled Bank of China-which was deliberately built a few feet higher than the British-run Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Resplendent with Venetian mosaics and bulletproof...