Word: gov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years later, Volpe, again campaigning primarily on his own name and on promises of reform, defeated Democratic Lt. Gov. Francis X. Bellotti for the governorship. Volpe was aided by many anti-Bellotti votes in that election, which was quite close. Bellotti had defied an unwritten rule of good political behavior by running against (and defeating) Peabody for the Democratic nomination. Many friends of Peabody's resented this and voted for Volpe...
...self-employed doctors, lawyers, small busi nessmen and farmers still refused to file tax returns, and the government figures that 95% of those who did file cheated. Indeed, had it not been for the compulsory withholding taxes taken out of wage earners' paychecks, the gov ernment might well have used up its entire income tax receipts just to pay the salaries of its tax collectors. But then until last year, tax evasion was not even a crime...
...marchers will follow the order of procession used since the days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, with the sheriffs of Middles and Suffolk Counties walking behind the University Marshal, followed by the President and Fellows, the Board of Overseers, Gov. John A. Volpe, and the Faculty and degree candidates...
...drunken, machete-swinging Ecaudorans attack the curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Biology, his wife, and a Harvard senior under the impression that they are government officials coming to confiscate land. The senior obtains help by running six miles through the jungle in his bare feet. The Gov Department makes grades in Gov 99 the letter equivalents of thesis ratings...
...stronger British action against Ian Smith's government in Rhodesia. Addressing 20,000 followers at a youth rally in Lusaka, Kaunda attacked Wilson for his "kith and kin" policy on Rhodesia and threatened to propose Britain's expulsion at the next Commonwealth meeting unless Smith's gov ernment has been toppled by then. "Our stand on the rebels is final," Kaunda stressed. ";We refuse to be part and parcel of British treachery...