Word: elected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate picture is not much brighter for the Republicans. Although a half-dozen states may elect a Senator with a different party affiliation than that of the incumbent, the Democrats still might wind up with a net gain of one or two seats. The best the GOP can hope for is to break even or perhaps pick up one seat if most of the close races break in their favor...
...standardized testing (though whether it should be centralized, and so all-pervasive, is another question). But where the tendency to overemphasize and abuse test scores is so strong, the issues of test reliability, bias, validity and misinterpretation are critical. ETS, being accountable only to its board of trustees (who elect their own successors), has rarely been eager to get involved in making sure that the scores from its tests are used properly. Although proposals for curbing, or at least monitoring, the power of ETS have gone so far as to suggest strict government regulation, it is, for the time being...
Campaign Humor. Political humorists are the founding fathers of new plans to ensure voters that revolutionary right in future elections. Mark Russell has launched a campaign for federal quality control of campaign humor at the source. "I'm introducing the Federal Joke Registration Act," he reports, "under which politicians must audition before a Federal Joke Review Board composed of Ed Muskie, John Gronouski, Peter Rodino, Muhammad Ali and Barbara Jordan." And Gerald Nachman has come up with a splendid suggestion. Presidential terms are too long and campaigns too infrequent, he feels, to overcome the soporific aftereffects of a pair...
...northern Congressional field coordinator for the committee to elect Carter, coincidentally named Gene McCarthy, said yesterday he believes Eugene McCarthy's impact on the election will be "insignificant...
Advised by his physicians and encouraged by his friends, including Senator Edward Kennedy, who has been supporting an uphill fight to elect him Senate Democratic leader, Humphrey placed himself in the hands of Memorial's Whitmore. Leading the team of five doctors, Urologist Whitmore performed an extremely difficult operation that he had helped pioneer in the early 1950s with his old mentor, Dr. Victor Marshall of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center...