Word: electives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assorted Surprises. Next came a crate of assorted mugs, who, Committee Counsel Bob Kennedy contended, were rounded up by Dio and his henchmen. They served as officers of the phony locals that were set up to outvote Joint Council 16 President Martin Lacey in 1956 and elect Hoffa's man, John O'Rourke. Among these was one Armando Simontacci, who testified that, all of a sudden, although he had never been a member of the Teamsters, he was told one day by one of Dio's boys that he had been made president of Teamster Local...
Amid the minarets and arabesques of the busy capital of Kuala Lumpur (pop. 300,000), a solemn convocation of sultans and state chieftains gathered last week. Their job: to elect the one of their number who for five years will be His Majesty the Paramount Ruler of the Independent State of Malaya (at a salary of $60,000 a year plus perquisites) when the new Commonwealth nation comes into being at the end of this month...
Your July 8 Letters column reports Mrs. E. Torkilsen as asking: "Is there any ideal way we can legally get rid of Chief Justice Warren?" The answer is yes, elect him President...
...students spontaneously adopt American mannerisms: they dress in the casual Midwestern collegiate style, sip Cokes and malteds at a hangout called Uncle Sam's, annually elect a Miss A.U.B., a Miss Lebanon, and a May Queen. But beneath these superficial Americanisms, the fever of Arab nationalism seethes in every corner of the campus. "My friends," says one student, "are interested in two things: politics and sex, and sex comes in a poor second." Professors estimate that while only a handful (about 20) are Communists, at least 60% of the student body are violently pro-Nasser, and almost all support...
Throughout most of their long and tragic history, the inhabitants of the rocky, windswept island of Sardinia have been Italy's forgotten men. But last week all Italy was watching as Sardinia's tough peasants and their red-skirted women went to the polls to elect a new regional council. Reason: Italy was still without a Premier, after a month and a half's crisis, and its only hope for a strong government lay in new national elections (now scheduled for next spring). In the Sardinian voting, Rome's politicos were seeking portents...