Word: elected
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...observers in California think so, but some marginal restrictions on student activities seem to be on the way. The governor-elect has asked John McCone, a former CIA head who reported on the Watts riots for the Johnson administration, to choose 15 prominent men willing to serve on a committee to investigate controversial student problems at Berkeley. The University's Board of Regents, Reagan proposes, would then pick five from the group who would write a report which the Regents could, in the end, deal with as they...
...outgoing Governor when the death of Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge precipitated a contest for control of the statehouse between Arnall and Herman Talmadge, who had received write-in votes as "insurance" against his father's failing health. The impasse ended after two months, when Arnall voluntarily stepped aside, and the state Supreme Court named Lieutenant Governor-elect Melvin Thompson acting chief executive...
Instead, the talks have been devoted to the painstaking resolution of the minor ecclesiastical differences between the churches. The Methodists elect bishops for life, the E.U.B. for renewable four-year terms. Methodist district superintendents are appointed by bishops; E.U.B. superintendents are elected by the annual conferences. In the end, the E.U.B. voted to accept the Methodist practices in these areas...
Music professionals unanimously condemn the Monkees as the greatest public relations hoax since Ronald Reagan's rise to political prominence. At least California's governor-elect was an accomplished actor before he swapped vocations; the Monkees were still theatrical amateurs. That they can perform their cut-rate version of A Hard Day's Night every Monday night at 7:30 is a dismal reflection of the power of big money and connections in the music industry. The boys themselves are fully aware of their freakish birth and, for now, speak of "The Group" in a subdued whisper. "You know that...
...opposition parties will not give Erhard any breathing time. Since they were leading in the polls, the Social Democrats were trying to force new national elections. They vowed that they would demand that the Chancellor submit to a Bundestag vote of confidence this week. It seemed highly unlikely that . he would oblige, and some Socialists were plotting with the Free Democrats to combine the votes of the two groups just long enough to elect a new Chancellor-whose sole act would be to call for new national elections...