Word: electorate
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...Philippines. Everywhere I heard that Ho had once been regarded, and rightfully so, as the George Washington to Indochina. He had led his people against the imperialist French and, with General Giap, had waged a brilliant, tightly-organized campaign against a superior enemy. Is there say need of a elector parallel with Washington...
...judge federal court in San Antonio. Result: an injunction, based on the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause, forbidding Texas to deny suffrage to anyone "entering military service as a resident citizen of another state, who otherwise in good faith meets all of the requirements of a qualified elector in this state." Texas may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but meanwhile at least 25,000 servicemen hope soon to exercise the right to vote in elections in Texas...
Third, PBK should make sure that an elector concentrating in the candidates field and another elector in the candidate's House talk with each candidate about his interests before the elections of the Eight and Sixteen. Unless a candidate leads his class, if no one in PBK knows him he is at a severe disadvantage. Perhaps he is doing independent work, connected with or unrelated to his field, that not even his tutor knows about. Perhaps his tutor doesn't know him, as is usually the case with mathematicians. On the other hand perhaps he studies nothing but Serbo-Croatian...
Bustelli created all of his known works in the employ of the Elector of Bavaria, owner of a renowned porcelain factory at Nymphenburg. Although the factory got high prices for Bustelli figurines, the artist never received more than stingy wages. At his death, his worldly possessions consisted of a few articles of furniture, 228 engravings, some of his own figurines, and 31 books on chemistry...
...MAKE THE ELECTORAL-VOTE SYSTEM COMPLETELY AUTOMATIC. Under a 1956 proposal made by then-Senator John F. Kennedy, the rigmarole of naming electors would be abolished. The candidate who got the most popular votes in each state would get that state's full bundle of electoral votes without any ado. Kennedy's plan would perpetuate the system, but tidy it up a bit, getting rid of the rituals and forestalling such aberrations as the South's unpledged elector movement...