Word: elected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly 200 supporters of Rep. Morris Udall (D-Ariz.) gathered Sunday in the dilapidated and dimly lit auditorium of Rindge Tech in one of the 132 caucuses designed to elect delegates to the Democratic National Convention this summer...
...late 1968 President-elect Richard Nixon phoned Nathan Pusey, then Harvard's president, to request a leave for Professor Kissinger. Pusey said all right, but the maximum for leaves was two years. Replied Nixon: "I was hoping you could make it longer. We will not be taking so many [from Harvard] this time...
...referendum would further enliven what is already a contentious election campaign. In November, Puerto Ricans will elect a Governor, a legislature and municipal officials. For the first time the Communists, organized as the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, will run candidates...
Although the old CHUL sent the question of retaining student choice back to its executive subcommittee, there appears to be little doubt that the new board will favor retention. Indeed some speculated that the representatives-elect were responsible for the old board's shift on the question of student choice. In straw votes on January 14 CHUL indicated that it favored recommending that a system of random student assignments at the end of freshman year be used for one to three years. But a week later, in its final meeting, the 1975 CHUL turned a quick about-face, recommending...
Then the disclosures of Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon Administration showed just how tawdry and outrageous the system had become. As it turned out, some of the money that was ostensibly given to elect Nixon ended up being spent to finance the break-in of the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate apartments in Washington. Campaign financing had become a cynical charade...