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Fair Formula. In phrases that echoed those of Andrew Jackson, who demanded reform of the presidential-election process in eight successive messages to Congress, Johnson urged elimination of "several major defects"-notably the electors' theoretical right to disregard the winning candidate's popular majority. They can either elect someone who is not even a candidate or, in a close election, fail to give any nominee a majority and so put the election up to the House of Representatives. The present system provides that if the choice goes to the House, each state delegation has a single vote. Johnson...
Stronger Coattails. The most controversial feature of the Johnson amendment is its proposal to elect the entire...
...Price Jr., dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, has been named President-Elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest scientific organization in the country...
...spokesman in the Massachusetts Pax office stated that the group wants to elect a liberal candidate to oppose Saltonstall, and "hopefully prevent Saltonstall from running at all if the coalition is big enough, soon enough." The coalition "does not want to support a symbolic losing candidate like H. Stuart Hughes," but a liberal candidate who has a chance of winning, she added...
John V. Lindsay, mayor-elect of New York City, Saturday appointed John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics to a task force which will study New York's antipoverty program...