Word: elected
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Hired Thugs. The campaign they conducted-to elect the 312-seat national House of Representatives-was anything but a model for democracy. The most attractive opposition leader, Western Region Premier Obafemi Awolowo, had been sentenced to a ten-year jail term for supposedly attempting to overthrow the federal government. On both sides, hired thugs (known as "party stalwarts") invaded enemy political rallies with rocks, machetes, guns, even bows and arrows...
Other Ivy schools with a scholar-elect are Cornell and Yale. Stanford has one winner, as do the Naval and Air Force Academies...
...eager group of young Republicans supporting Ford plotted strategy in secret meetings, worked hard to round up votes. At week's end they thought they could count the 71 needed to elect Ford by secret ballot in a party caucus on Jan. 4. But they conceded that many of these votes were shaky-especially if Halleck fights all out to stay...
...qualifications for the secretarial job on the Washington staff of Maryland's Senator-elect Joseph Tydings, 36, were pretty impressive. She was an ultraloyal Democrat who had worked seven days a week for Tydings during the election campaign, could type 90 words a minute, take dictation at the stopwatch speed of 100 words per, and seemed a cinch for the job. But a girl can't have everything. It came out that leggy, blonde Mary Ellen Terziu, 23, also moonlighted her nights away as a bunny at the Baltimore Playboy Club. Up went the chances...
...Well, it's Sunday, and what else can you do on a Sunday in New York?" asked Ethel Kennedy, 35, as she whirled round Manhattan's Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink with the Senator-elect and five (Michael, 6; Courtney, 8; Kathleen, 13; David, 9; Joe, 12) of their eight children. What else, indeed...