Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Ford has appointed a five-man Faculty committee to arrange election procedures for the new Faculty Council, approved last month.
The Faculty voted earlier this year to use a "proportional representation" election system for the council. They rejected the Fainsod Committee's recommendation that the dean of the Faculty appoint the members of the council with elections only if the Faculty were not satisfied with the dean's choices.
Sir: The rejection of Clement Haynsworth [Nov. 28] clearly shows that Congress has gotten the message: while the election of Nixon indicated great disenchantment with Lyndon Johnson, it was not the public mandate for ultraconservatism and political patronage that the Nixon-Agnew forces claim.
The Senate was, in effect, stampeded by an amendment proposed by Senator Albert Gore, who faces a tough election battle next year. By raising personal exemptions from $600 per person to $800, the Gore amendment would reduce taxes by 61% for a family of four earning $5,000 a year...
This time around, Eugene McCarthy has won a national election. The three-member poetry prize committee of the National Endowment for the Arts has chosen his poem, Three Bad Signs, for a $500 award. Completed during the Indiana primary campaign last year, the poem appears to be a sly indictment...