Word: electives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council also recommended a number of specific solutions. It suggested that RUS elect some officers to work on the constitution, and that the students and Trustees hold a conference to discuss the problems...
...needed for nomination), with the remainder divided among others-790 votes for Kennedy and McCarthy, 61 for Alabama's George Wallace. Predicted Harry Truman, who survived a bitter party rift in 1948 to win the nomination: "The regular Democrats will go down the line to re-elect the President, unless some damn fool splits them...
Greater Voice. At week's end, Prime Minister Jozef Lenart took over the duties of the presidency until the Czechoslovak National Assembly can meet to elect a successor to Novotny. The party Presidium made plans to restore the reputations of as many as 30,000 people disgraced in Novotny's purges. This week the Central Committee is due to get Dubcek's reform program, which is likely to remove some controls on the economy and give the people a greater voice in their affairs. While the other top Communists in the Soviet bloc are clearly worried about...
...Christian Democrats, led by Premier Aldo Moro, have played a major role in all of Italy's postwar governments; they received 38% of the vote in the 1963 elections. The Communists, headed by Secretary-General Luigi Longo, won 25% of the vote in the last elections but have regularly been excluded from a share in the government coalition, in which the Christian Democrats have recently been partners with the Democratic Socialists, the Socialists and the Republicans. This time, the Communists have decided to take a new campaign tack: instead of asking for votes only for themselves, they are working...
...however, that their conclusions could hardly be shrugged off. A book reporting the meeting is now being assembled for distribution to 250,000 lawyers and nonlawyers. Much of what was said at the meeting will seem revolutionary to most of the recipients. But as Philadelphia Lawyer Bernard Segal, president-elect of the A.B.A. for 1969-70, said in one discussion group: "We are stating large principles here, and we should not get sidetracked with specific problems. I think we have to restructure the legal profession...