Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs yesterday moved to squelch the first attempt to elect a female undergraduate as senior class marshal in the University's 329-year history...
...Reed Elis '65, chairman of the HCUA, said last night that the requirements for senior marshal had never been written down, but that the Council has "just generally assumed that the person is a senior [scheduled to] graduate from Harvard...
Like Miss Levine, most of them didn't understand why a girl can't be a Harvard marshal if she receives a Harvard diploma...
...populous north, the Moslem ruler, whose title is the Sardauna (Field Marshal) of Sokoto-the real power behind Prime Minister Balewa-removed all elements of chance. Aware that the north's 167 seats alone were enough to guarantee the N.N.A. continued control of the House, the Sardauna's police jailed 40 U.P.G.A. candidates on spurious charges, and election officials refused to register at least 20 others. The lonely opposition candidates remaining were turned away from hotels and restaurants all over the north, denied entrance to public buildings-and even found police roadblocks barring their way to the next...
...angered officers. Before dawn the next day, Sunday-it seems to be always on Sunday-there were ominous troop movements in Saigon. Reportedly the operation was directed by Brigadier General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the mustached, intense commander of the I Corps in the northern region, and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, who affects harlequin glasses and a pearl-handled revolver. Squads of police sped through Saigon's darkened streets, arresting seven council members and a dozen-odd politicians and student leaders...