Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scottish Nationalist Party, a party so weak a year ago that it amounted to little more than hope in the minds of its 60,000 members. Even last fall, when the Scot-Nats elected Mrs. Winifred Ewing, 38, a lawyer and mother of three, as their first member in Parliament since 1945 (TIME, Nov. 10), few considered them serious electoral contenders...
...Nazi, pfui! Nazi, pfui!" hissed the scores of West Germans who milled about in front of the state parliament building in Stuttgart, the capital of the big southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg. The object of the hisses paid no attention. Adolf von Thadden, 46, whose far-rightist party had just polled 10% of the vote in the Baden-Württemberg elections, strode into the building to talk with newsmen. "Despite the efforts of everyone to keep us out of the state parliament," he said, "the National Democrats have won their most beautiful victory...
...that inside, they would have to wrestle with stultifying traditionalism, intrigues, archaic business practices that date back to the time of Emperor Franz Josef, entrenched labor unions, and a recalcitrant Vienna Philharmonic. Outside, there is a formidable battery of critics, a musically conservative but demanding public, and an unpredictable Parliament that holds the purse strings...
Three days after succeeding Lester Pearson as Canada's 15th Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 48, went before Parliament last week and, in his first formal appearance as leader of the country, dissolved Parliament and called for new general elections on June 25. Thus, ignoring considerable party opinion that he should prove himself to the voters before going to the polls, Trudeau decided to push ahead and try to capitalize on the political momentum that propelled him almost overnight from the Justice Ministry in Pearson's government into his country...
...previous governments since 1962 - dependent upon minority party support to get legislation passed. But the latest Gallup poll gives the Liberals 42% of the vote, their highest rating in 27 months, compared with 34% for the opposition Tories. Besides, though he will be with out a Parliament, Trudeau will continue as a highly visible Prime Minister until the elections...