Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harris poll last week showed that 79% of the nation favors electoral reform. Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh has scheduled Senate subcommittee hearings for January on a constitutional amendment providing for direct popular election of the President and Vice President. New York's Emanuel Celler will hold similar hearings in the House. "We have flirted," said Bayh, "with the most dangerous constitutional crisis faced by the United States in a long time...
...sons was $83 for a 60-hour work week as a taxicab company supervisor. Today he earns $4.20 an hour as a worker for St. Louis Millstone Construction Inc., averaging $160 a week. David Mapson, 36, spent 15 years in the Ohio Penitentiary for armed robbery, and could not hold a regular job. Now, at Cleveland's Ford foundry, he earns $3.50 an hour, and with overtime, as much as $210 a week...
...that, in turn, the experts believed, would lead to the fall of Communist Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka in Poland and "a likely eventual loss of the Soviet hold over East Germany...
...championship was a major consolation for Leverett, which had to settle for second place in soccer and touch football. The Bunnies also won the cross country meet, so they now hold a commanding Strauss Trophy lead after the fall season...
...PUBLIC LAW requires only that 1) the senior officer of each ROTC Unit hold the rank of full Professor 2) that course offerings be included in Harvard's curriculum and 3) that Harvard and the ROTC Units meet all the stipulations of the contracts between Harvard and the Secrearies of the participating Military Services. The withdrawal of academic credit would not specifically challenge the law, but would challenge the stipulations of the contracts. At the joint consent of Harvard and the Military Services, the contracts could legally be modified...