Word: electics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first order of business in January, the Council will elect a mayor; the City Manager might lend support to a prospective mayor in exchange for another vote. Beyond that, few venture to predict his moves. "No one knows what cards DeGug has up his sleeve," one observer of the Council commented recently...
Many Kentuckians are doing exactly that. So many, in fact, that Kentucky may well elect its first Republican Governor in 24 years. Nunn, 43, a former county judge who ran against Breathitt in 1963 and lost by a mere 13,055 votes, preaches that it is "time for a change" from the "old, entrenched political machine." He is an energetic handshaker and baby-kisser who is not above pumping a dog's paw at a shopping-center rally. To support his argument that the election has great national implications, Nunn has imported such Republican luminaries as Ronald Reagan, George...
Perhaps the largest official legacy the U.S. is creating for the Micronesians is the fostering of a slow but steady growth of Micronesian political consciousness. At municipal, district and territory-wide levels, the Micronesians have been taught to elect their own officials and legislative bodies, and to begin to establish the appurtenances of self-rule. So far they are only appurtenances, since the word of U.S. High Commissioner William R. Norwood-and ultimately of the U.S. Congress-remains final...
...second election campaign began just after the new administration of President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu had won validation of the first. By a vote of 58 to 43, the Provisional Legislative Assembly cleared Thieu's last legal barrier to power. One result of the validation was new trouble in the streets of Saigon, where several elements continued to contest the right of Thieu's administration to rule. Students demonstrated briefly but were quickly contained by police. Thich Tri Quang, South Viet Nam's most troublesome monk, declared a hunger strike beneath his tree opposite Independence Palace...
...first public speech at Harvard since assuming the ADA post, Galbraith told an audience of Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats at Burr Hall that they should work to elect a slate of peace delegates to next summer's Democratic National Convention in Chicago...