Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue one of keeping a promise to the club's members. The Harvard International Relations Council insured that Wallace would still be invited if the Young Democratic Club declined to sponsor him. In fact, at an Executive Committee meeting Colin Carl, a member of the faction advocating an invitation to Wallace at all costs, kept the IRC invitation secret to insure that the Young Democratic Club would invite Wallace itself. And when the IRC invitation was revealed, Burt Ross, now President of the Young Democrats, refused even to consider a joint sponsorship of the Wallace appearance with the IRC because...
This is the same reason which other members of the Ross faction have repeatedly given for their desire that the Young Democrats sponsor Wallace: simply to make money for the club. Yet the club treasury was already at an all-time high from the dues which the club collects in order to be free to devote its full energies to educational and constructive functions and avoid this Shriners' Circus type activity. And while this one issue reflects badly on the club, it is only a symptom of a general change in the nature of the club, from an independent, idealistic...
...what his precise effect on Harvard students will be. Such an assumption is not axiomatic. To see how Wallace behaves in Sanders Theatre, in contrast to his hollow harangues before Alabama schools, may give insight into a man who, whether we like it or not, represents an important political faction in this country...
Many skeptics believe that the Russians will never cooperate in a meaningful way; to do so would require revealing too much about their military missiles and their rumored plans to put a large manned space station into orbit. One Pentagon faction insists that the main Russian space effort has always been military, and that the U.S. is risking disaster by putting top emphasis on nonmilitary space exploits...
...them by local Negroes, they eliminated persons who were notoriously vicious. There were only two or three though, who were known at one point or another to have shown some slight sign of humanity toward a Negro. Since the defense had also learned that there was an anti-Sheriff faction in Baker County, they hoped to get some members of this group on the jury. Even so, it was difficult to see the standard used for weeding out the diabolical from the simply evil. The State, represented by B.C. Gardner, used three of its strikes against Negroes...