Word: elected
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...public servant-turned-educator who turned public servant again, Bell was the third man selected for President-elect John Kennedy's government. He came to Washington as Director for the Budget Bureau and became foreign aid administrator in 1962. The citation called him "an able, selfless public servant upon whose kind depends the health of our democracy...
Lynch also righted some wrongs. Colgate's Dick Johnston and Navy's Court-yard Cray had upset the Crimson's captain-elect in the 440-yard hurdles earlier is spring, but neither got within arm's length Saturday...
...Lynch, who finished second in last year's 440-yard hurdles behind Manhattan's Vince McArdle, who has graduated. Lynch lost to Pittsburgh's Dick Johnson at the Penn relays and to Navy's Cortland Gray in the Heps, but both races were close. The Crimson's captain-elect will double in the 120-yard high hurdles, where he's likely to place if he can approach his season's best time of 14.3. Doubling, however, means running five races, and that's a lot of hurdling...
...major stumbling block to effecting any radical changes in the composition of the clubs is their policy of electing "legacies"--the sons of club alumni. Since much of the clubs' endowment comes from alumni support, it is financially expedient--if nothing else--to elect the legacies. Some years back, a wealthy industrialist who had belonged to the Spee as an undergraduate was enraged when his son was not elected to the club. Storming up to Cambridge in his Rolls-Royce, accompanied by a coterie of servants...
Root of Evil. Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark had no less than 27 separate proposals up his sleeve, including two that dealt with one of Clark's pet peeves: the seniority system of selecting committee chairmen. Clark suggested that henceforth chairmen be elected by secret ballot taken among each committee's majority party members, further urged that a mandatory retirement age of 70 be imposed on all chairmen. Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire, mindful of the fact that nine of the Senate's 16 standing committees are chaired by Southerners, wanted...