Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least 40% of the vote, a run-off between the top two aspirants would follow. Such a system would not have changed the outcome last year, but it would have eliminated the twin risks inherent in the present constitutional practice: that a candidate running second in the popular vote would get a majority of electoral votes, and that the failure of any candidate to get a majority would throw the selection of a winner into the House of Representatives. Both situations occurred in the 19th century...
...amendment will finally take is not yet clear, however. Besides the House Judiciary Committee's plan for a direct election, there are also schemes to retain electoral votes in some form. One such plan would divide each state's electoral votes among the candidates according to the popular-vote breakdown. Another would elect members of the Electoral College by local districts...
...approval of 38 state legislatures, and it is impossible to predict how they would react. Generally, there has been resistance within smaller states to major electoral change. By abandoning the present method of giving a candidate all of a state's votes, no matter how small his popular plurality, reformers also reduce the bargaining power and importance of state party organizations. The Senate, traditionally more sensitive to states' rights than the House, is likely to provide a tougher battleground than the lower chamber...
...rising young bureaucrats and party officials, and diners-out in Moscow can see an elaborate floor show at the huge Arbat restaurant, with gypsy dancing, jugglers and magicians. Yet long lines are still a feature of Moscow life; they form daily outside the Georgian-style Aragvi restaurant and the popular Seventh Heaven, a new yet already shabby revolving restaurant 700 ft. up the 1,600-ft.-high Moscow television tower. The Bolshoi Theater is sold out weeks in advance, and outside the Moscow Circus people queue up in hopes of last-minute cancellations. No wonder the two-day weekend touched...
...gets out of town, going to dachas in the neighboring countryside or to hastily winterized summer camps for a cheap weekend of cross-country skiing. The two-day weekend also means more time for old-fashioned hobbies such as stamp collecting and chess. Televised soccer and hockey games are popular, and a few privileged children have even taken up gocart racing. Winter and summer, Muscovites splash in the open-air Moskva swimming pool built on the site of a prerevolutionary cathedral...