Word: memberships
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President Nixon will face a Senate that retains its Democratic majority and liberal bent, though both in membership and temperament it has undergone a slight shift to the right. The Republicans gained a net of at least four seats, reducing the Democrats' edge from 63-37 to 59-41?or perhaps even 58-42. The G.O.P. picked up seats in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Maryland, Arizona and Oklahoma, and was close to another in Oregon. The Democrats toppled Republicans in California and Iowa. The new Senate will be a little more conservative in dealing with federal spending and controls, civil...
...CHANGE in titles has already turned up one very specific issue--peripheral to the Committee's report but by no means trivial. By making instructors assistant professors, the Faculty has increased its voting membership for next year by about 70 to 100 members, and not everyone is sure that's a good idea. The Dunlop report in fact recommended that the status quo be frozen--by passing a rule requiring an assistant professor to serve three years before being allowed to vote...
...gleaming brass fixtures, plus just a hint of modern psychedelia in the lights flashing across the dining-room ceiling. But not everybody can get into Raffles merely by rapping on the door and whispering, "Joe sent me." It costs $500 to join, another $350 a year in dues, and membership runs to the likes of Senator Jacob Javits, Henry Ford, Truman Capote, the Duke of Bedford, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Douglas Dillon and George Plimpton. As Ginger Rogers says: "It's where you can meet the people you want to meet...
...berth in skilled trades and the Democratic Party and harrassed by an anti-labor law, the labor movement might regain the urgency it lost in the '30's. Labor might then become a suitably militant ally for blacks, students, and the poor. But more likely, with growth stifled, and membership yielding to automation, an already tired trade union movement will simply wither...
...past the wind ensemble operated as a pick-up group, with various members of the Cambridge community taking part in its infrequent concerts. It will now perform a concert series in Cambridge with a regular membership of 35 men and women...