Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before he was sworn in, by contrast, Brooke attracted little attention as he visited the Senate gymnasium, played tennis with Oregon's junior Senator-elect Mark Hatfield, enjoyed a sauna bath and massage, and used the Senate barbershop and dining room. Then, on the "big day," as he called it, Republican Brooke, 47, was escorted by Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy down the multicolored carpet of the Senate chamber to stand before Vice President Hubert Humphrey for the swearing-in ceremony. Brooke modestly shook hands with dozens of Senators, including segregationists, met fellow-Republican Freshmen Clifford Hansen...
Albert Shanker, president of the United Federation of Teachers, predicted that teachers will refuse to be judged by autocratic principals with no competence in their fields--and he suggested that the best solution would be to have teachers elect a faculty member principal for a specific term of office...
...Laotian Army and the intransigent Communist Pathet Lao, which controls nearly half of the country, Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma maintains a facade of government simply because he is the only Premier acceptable to both the West and the Communist powers. Last week, when Laotians went to the polls to elect a new National Assembly in the first countrywide elections since 1960, foreign observers from a dozen capitals from Moscow to Washington waited nervously for the outcome in the sleepy capital of Vientiane. They had good reason to be nervous: a defeat for the courtly, autocratic Souvanna would almost certainly precipitate...
Brazil's President-elect Artur da Costa e Silva is having a high old time. On a good will tour of the world, he has already visited Portugal, Belgium, Germany and France, where he went to the Lido but did not see De Gaulle. Last week he flew to Italy and was received by Pope Paul VI and Premier Aldo Moro, then winged on for Bangkok, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and finally New York and Washington, where he will stay in Blair House as the President's guest late this month. He will not return home...
...need a Great Society, we need a self-reliant society," and Medicare erodes that self-reliance, the president-elect of the American Medical Association told a Kirkland House audience last night...