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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...
...unpledged elector plan, aimed at loosing states from national party ties, is not likely to get very far. But it does call renewed attention to a wide spread feeling that the U.S. electoral college system, as set forth in the Constitution, is an anachronism. Under examination by the Kefauver subcommittee are seven proposed constitutional amendments for reforming the presidential electoral system. The main avenues of approach...
...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...
Sausages & Scholars. Göttingen's grandeur goes back to 1736. when Hannover's Elector George August, who also happened to be Britain's King George II, launched the university in a hamlet then so obscure that his courtiers at first thought he meant Gothenburg in Sweden. To publicize the place. George put the school in charge of an imaginative baron named Von Münchausen-a cousin of the famous liar. By 1770 it was Germany's most important university...