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Huntington received the necessary number of mailed ballots to be considered for election at the Academy's annual meeting, held yesterday in Washington. But at the meeting a challenge to his nomination was raised, and his election was blocked after a floor fight before 530 NAS members that one Academy member said went to the "bitter...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: NAS Rejects Huntington For Second Straight Year | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

Lang, who is a visiting professor at Harvard this semester, said yesterday: "I'm happy that the NAS has preserved some standards. The questions I have raised concerning the way some political scientists practice their field have received some legitimacy from today's election...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: NAS Rejects Huntington For Second Straight Year | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

...NAS members opposed to Huntington have said that he is but one example of what they fear is a decline in the standards of the Academy's social scientists, who are known as Class V. These members said that what they consider a lack of scientific standards within Class V may be indicative of a general Academy trend...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: NAS Rejects Huntington For Second Straight Year | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

...Huntington debate, which had been carriedon through the mail during the past year, took tothe floor at the NAS meeting yesterday...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: NAS Rejects Huntington For Second Straight Year | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

Candidates for election "take their licks atit, but Huntington is a slightly differentproblem. There was a file circulated onHuntington, and this decision is a reflection ofthat file," said one NAS member, who spoke on thecondition of anonymity...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: NAS Rejects Huntington For Second Straight Year | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

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