Word: metting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...separate petitions asked the court to overturn the ruling of the Election Commission. Boston attorney Alan Rosenberg, representing members of the Rent Control Referendum Committee-including Hilary Putnam, Professor of Philosophy-said that very legal requirement has been met by the committee. He argued that the sole duty of the Election Commission is to determine if all requirements have been met and not to decide the legality of the proposed ordinance...
peated Rosenberg's arguments. He cited the Massachusetts statute on referenda which states that once all legal requirements have been met "the referendum shall go on the ballot." He pointed out that the statute makes no reference to the legality of the bill itself...
...duty of the Commission, the court said, is a ministerial one, limited to determining whether all standards for a referendum have been met. This duty was limited to such functions as counting...
Leighton Ford, 38, is the handsome, Canadian-born heir apparent to the Billy Graham empire. He met Graham 20 years ago, and Billy's younger sister Jean shortly thereafter at Wheaton College; they married while Ford was studying to become a Southern Presbyterian minister. Now an associate evangelist with Billy's Crusade, Ford is a shade more polished than Graham, and preaches even more earnestly than his brother-in-law that "a commitment to Christ is a commitment to social reform...
...manager of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, he staged a benefit party that brought together poets, actors, and some of the pioneers of the big new sound called rock. It was a huge success and showed him what he could do. "It was the first time all those people met," says Graham. "Ferlinghetti, the Fugs, the Jefferson Airplane, Peter Orlovsky. It was the most beautiful evening of theater, the most beautiful party, the most joyful evening ever. Everyone was stoned -some on grass, yeah, but others on nothing at all but the scene, man. The musicians played, and the people...