Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wayne. In any case, declared the Red leader, Communists and other leftists must coalesce to elect an "independent" candidate for President in 1968 to replace Lyndon Johnson. Did he have anyone in mind? Well, allowed Hall, Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse had been "playing a big role in peace." The only problem was that Morse himself last week came out for Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968, while Bobby announced that he was for L.B.J. On the other hand, as an ex-Republican and a currently restive Democrat, Morse would certainly be a novel kind of candidate...
...House of David's less than paradisaical buildings, Ada Jeffrey was minding the colony's dairy operation as she has done for 60 years. They do not expect to wait too long for the Millennium, when they will be among God's 144,000 elect, as King Ben had always promised...
Britain's Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 50, must have been feeling like a bigger monkey than the melancholy thane. The Oxford University Liberal Club, in which he'd enjoyed honorary membership "for his past and present services to the Liberal Party," decided in its elections this time that 'Arold had moved too far left of Liberal. "We felt his continued membership would be a blot on the club's escutcheon," sniffed the group's secretary-elect. Their replacement was sufficiently weird: Mrs. Eleanor Bone, High Priestess of the Worshipful Coven of London Witches. Croaked...
Also honored were Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who received an LL.D.; and the president-elect of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Howard W. Johnson, who also received a Doctor of Laws degree...
...Adams House Senior tutor forbids off-campus students to live on Putnam Ave, because his "impression of the neighborhood is that it is pretty bad." The Young Republicans show some inclination to elect a gorilla as their club's vice-president. The Atomic Energy Commission blames last summer's $1.5 million bubble-chamber explosion on faulty beryllium windows and says that only luck kept it from being worse...