Word: electoral
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Until now Henry Irwin, 62, a West Pointer and former lieutenant colonel who resigned from the Army in 1947 after marrying Phillips Petroleum Heiress Elizabeth Phillips, was best known as a maverick Oklahoma presidential elector. In 1960 he ignored his pledge to Richard Nixon and voted for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd. Last week a court approved a settlement in which Irwin will be paid $1,600 a month by his exwife, as long as he remains unmarried. She herself had proposed a payment because of his lack of income. "It was just something I wanted to do," she told newsmen...
...Cardinal Benelli, the papal elector...
...time each Cardinal-elector walks into St. Peter's Basilica for the pre-conclave Mass of the Holy Spirit this Friday, he will have taken two elaborate oaths of secrecy, one when he first joined the assembly of waiting Cardinals in Rome, another shortly before the conclave. Then, as the conclave begins, he will take a third oath along with his fellow Cardinals, pledging yet again to observe secrecy in any matter "pertaining to the election of the Roman Pontiff," under pain of excommunication...
Over its 500 years of cultural eminence, Dresden ideally demonstrated the evolution of collecting. First there was the essentially private Kunstkammer (cabinet of curiosities) of the Elector Augustus I (1553-86) and his successors. In special palace rooms, they assembled a kind of encyclopedia of the world's wonders, here painstakingly reconstructed from engravings and a 1587 inventory of objects. Since in their view, painters and sculptors were artisans like any other, bronze busts of earlier Electors, paintings of Adam and Eve, and a portrait of Martin Luther get no greater pride of place than the products of other...
...attempt by the Constitutional Convention to create special voting minority seats in any student assembly, as we feel this presupposes an inability of Harvard students to elect representatives according to merit and without regard to race, that it violates a longstanding constitutional tradition of equal representation of each elector, and that it constitutes a patronizing gesture toward the members of those minority groups who are proud of their ability to recognize and protect their interests without special favors...