Word: elected
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...supported by Anglo-Saxon justice and not totalitarianism."*In rebuttal, the A.B.A.'s incoming president, Whitney North Seymour, 59, of New York, argued that the court's decisions during its 14-year history have shown it to be learned and impartial. The A.B.A.'s new President-elect John C. Satterfield of Mississippi, 56, who will succeed Seymour in one year, contended that "if we retain the Connally Amendment, every day, every week, every year, we will be telling the world that we will not submit to the jurisdiction of the World Court and international...
...Governor Orval Faubus. Arkansas' Galahad of segregation, gave the Kennedy-Johnson ticket a gingerly endorsement, but made it clear that he will have no truck with the Democratic platform, especially its hateful civil rights plank. In Tallahassee, Farris Bryant, the Democratic candidate for Governor (and, in effect, Governor-elect) reached the same split decision, gave Jack Kennedy a grudging nod while deploring the "repugnant" civil rights program. In Washington, the grey eminence of diehard Dixiecracy. South Carolina's Strom Thurmond announced that he could stomach neither the "obnoxious and punitive" platform nor Candidate Kennedy. ¶During the farewells...
...hard-rooting spectator, and would deliver a series of speeches for Nixon-Lodge. "I don't know how many. But they will give me their ideas and if I agree, why, that is what I will do. because I am going to do whatever I can to elect Mr. Nixon and Mr. Lodge, and you can bet on that...
...double the university's physical size. First goal: housing a national law center, where diplomats of emerging nations may one day study democracy's rule of law. Other goals: more labs, classrooms, dormitories and scholarships to draw top students from all 50 states and the world. President-elect Car roll, who thinks that George Washington "would be well advised to elevate its admission standards," has more plans that "will mean an awful lot of work for everyone." His model is Harvard, and he wants it to be understood that "Washington is not Oshkosh...
...independent in October. First the number was reduced to 375 with schooling qualifying them for Cambridge and Oxford. They were given probing exams. The 83 with highest scores were then screened for character and ambition. The 35 survivors were further analyzed to judge prospects of future academic success. The elect two dozen, some of them schoolteachers back home, are in no mood for fun and games. What their education means to Nigeria is clear from one statistic: the only university in the country - the University College of Ibadan-turns out 50 graduates a year...