Word: electics
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...major difficulty is how to turn community participation into good education. One proposal advocates electing local school boards and then giving them wide powers over policy-making and personnel hiring in their districts. Another proposal would allow a community committee to select each school principal, while extending his authority. A third would elect district superintendents...
There is no reason to believe, however, that the House is justified in establishing ad hoc, and unspecified, requirements each time it considers barring a member-elect. When the Senate was debating the exclusion of a Utah polygamist, Sen. Knox of Pennsylvania maintained that moral qualifications should remain the province of the electorate, as it expresses itself at the polls, and insisted that Congress restrict itself to objective criteria. But Congress has excluded such unpopular personages as the polygamist; Victor Berger, a Wisconsin Socialist opposed to American participation in World War I; and assorted sympathizers with the South during...
Lincoln Gordon, LL.D., U.S. Assistant Secretary State for Inter-American Affairs and president-elect of Johns Hopkins University...
...reputation of Hoffa pere, which might have been fatal in many constituencies, was a boon in the 19th, with its large population of union members, many of whom feel the imprisoned Teamster boss got a bum rap. The Teamsters and the United Auto Workers went all out to elect young Hoffa, who even won kind words from Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Senator Robert Kennedy when they were in town...
...Acting Under Secretary last February. Highly regarded in university circles-Virginia and Pittsburgh were also considering him for president-Hollomon has little educational experience. O.U. has taken care of that. Under the terms of his appointment, he will spend ten months in on-the-job training as president-elect, learning about the state and visiting other campuses to see the nature of their problems...