Word: pars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governors also ran into stubborn resistance from the congressional wing of the party over the 1968 G.O.P. platform. They demanded that a moderate from their ranks be made co-chairman of the platform committee, serving on a par with the almost certain congressional spokesman, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen. Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference and the conservative who chaired the 1964 platform committee, rejected the Governors' overtures, leaving unsettled what the tone of the 1968 G.O.P. platform will be and the kind of candidate who will be chosen...
...clamorous hearing. As he told the board about the destruction of school property, Jones broke into tears and insisted that "we haven't lowered our academic standards -we've raised them." In fact officials of the Southern Regional Educational Board rate Grambling's faculty on a par with most Louisiana colleges, and 22% of its teachers hold Ph.D.s. The real point of the protest at Grambling is that Negro students are now aroused enough-and care enough-to risk expulsion in demanding a better college education...
...events which should have been the Crimson's strongest, Harvard turned in disappointing performances. Harvard's best weight man, Ron Wilson, took third behind teammate Charlie Ajootian and Cadet Larry Hart, who won. Harvard's Steve Schoonover won the pole vault, but his 14'6" winning vault was sub-par for the Hep champ...
...resign?" Last week Callaghan resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Harold Wilson moved him over to the Home Office and replaced him at the Treasury with Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, 48, a tough but suave economist who may be one of the few Laborites to gain from the par ty's recent embarrassments - provided that he can help extricate Britain from its present economic morass...
...Baker, the spare English captain, rebounded from sub par performances in the Big Three and Heptagonal meets--both won by Harvard--to take a strong twelfth place. Running his best time of the year at Van Cortlandt, Baker still trailed the winner, sophomore Art Dulong of Holy Cross...