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...University was still tied to the state, and the Corporation and Overseers engaged in running feuds with the legislature and each other over issues such as admissions, curriculum, and whether the University should support Unitarianism. In 1850 Governor George Bartwell tried to obtain for the legislature the power to elect members of the Corporation for six year terms. The bill was defeated, but after vigorous debate a compromise was reached which signaled the end of the old system. The Corporation was left alone, but the Board of Overseers was changed to one of 30 members elected by a joint ballot...
...Hart for President headquarters. She plans to continue to be active. "I'm going as a delegate to the state convention in June, and I've toyed with the idea of becoming a Hart delegate [to the Democratic National Convention]. I will do everything I can to elect as many good Hart supporters to go to the national convention as I can," she promises...
...John Stacks, who was struck by the talents of New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, says, "After spending nearly 20 years following male politicians, reporting on Ferraro proved that the ingredients of leadership are the same for men and women. But perhaps because she must overcome the historical reluctance to elect women, Ferraro seems to work twice as hard as most of her male counterparts...
...unsettled issues, the Administration's policy in Central America is most controversial. Yet Duarte managed to make military aid to El Salvador a cinch. "We couldn't have done it without Duarte," said an Administration official. In eleven hours one day, the President-elect had eight back-to-back meetings with congressional committees and caucuses. "I need your help," he pleaded. "Don't leave me standing alone." Duarte, the first freely elected President in half a century, means to lead a country enduring a hellish civil war, where the ruling class has been particularly resistant to social...
Mondale, reckoning Oregon a lost cause, did not stop there at all, and says he budgeted a mere $3,000 for the state, "not enough to elect an alderman." Hart spent $70,000. Oregon voters, urban hipsters and rural people alike, tend toward the kind of self-reliant, pine-scented progressivism that the Coloradan espouses; an endorsement from the influential Portland Oregonian also helped. Hart's white-water raft trip down a stretch of Oregon's Deschutes River was a picture-perfect dramatization of his appeal. "I love danger," he said after shooting the rapids. "It was wonderful...