Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coup against left-leaning President Joāo Goulart, but has done little political maneuvering since. Technically, he is the senior man in the group, but he ranks an easy third in power and ambition. Souza, 63, is a hard-core rightist who is not likely to play a major political role. Lyra Tavares, 63, is the strongest, has the best political sense and is the most widely admired of the three. He came up through the engineers corps -traditionally the army's "intellectual" branch-and has degrees in both law and engineering. He does not now appear...
...completely sastrous showing. The party's leaders knew better. To ensure fair elections, the military council had appointed one of Ghana's most distinguished judges to head an election commission. There were triple-sealed tin ballot boxes and acid baths for destroying unused bal lots. A major reason for Busia's over whelming majority was that both par ties appealed for tribal support - and got it. The Akans, among whom Busia is a royal prince, are four times as nu merous in Ghana as the Ewe tribe, to which his adversary Gbedemah belongs...
...voted (404 to 222) to provide $200,000 to the moderate National Committee of Black Churchmen. In taking the action, delegates knew that the money was intended eventually to reach the coffers of James Forman's Black Economic Development Conference. The Episcopal Church thus became the first major denomination to recognize-however indirectly-the "reparation" demands enunciated in Forman's Black Manifesto (TIME, May 16). Even this did not quite satisfy the militants. "The action is a political compromise," said the Rev. Frederick B. Williams, who accused the convention of channeling funds through the Black Churchmen "to avoid...
...suggest curriculum changes. Northwestern University is including students in a new community council, with faculty and administrators to advise the president on all matters of university policy, and is also turning questions of discipline over to a student board empowered to conduct hearings and appeals on everything short of "major disasters." Cornell University mailed questionnaires to students, faculty and alumni seeking their nominations for a successor to James Perkins, who resigned the presidency after the crisis last spring. Last week the trustees filled the post with the man who was the preferred choice of all three groups, Provost Dale...
...flaw in style is compounded, in Barber's view, by a major character deficiency - Nixon's tendency to lapse into unguarded behavior after periods of great stress. Nixon himself as much as acknowledged the phenomenon in his Six Crises, and later went on to explode bitterly at the press following his 1962 California gubernatorial defeat. Barber even provides a scenario for a future situation brought on by Nixon's "crisis syndrome": the Administration is defeated on a key issue, Nixon losing face or power in the bargain; at a press conference, he is badgered about...