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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lewis B. Oliver, Jr. '61, the third presidential candidate, said that he "wanted the constitution followed" and that the Council's prestige was at stake if it violated these constitutional provisions. He also obtained a petition signed by 15 members of the present Council favoring a reading period election...
...Council also made plans Thursday for the eight Masters to speak to freshmen about the respective Houses in a four-meeting series. Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, will present the proposal at a meeting of the Masters this week...
According to Holmes, the signed petitions have been turned over to the charge of D. Dwight Dogherty, Jr. '59 and Frederick H. Joseph '59, both members of the Permanent Class Committee of the Class of 1959. Dogherty said last night that he and Joseph would present the signatures to the Deans today, although he was not certain what action the Deans might take on such a petition...
...picking a Cabinet together, De Gaulle and Debre are expected to keep much of De Gaulle's present team in office: Antoine Pinay as Finance Minister, capable Career Diplomat Maurice Couve de Murville as Foreign Minister, and safe Civil Servant Emile Pelletier as Interior Minister. One likely departure is Minister of State Guy Mollet, whose Socialist Party dislikes De Gaulle's new austerity budget. Mollet talks of the need to create a loyal opposition, so that resentment particularly among the workers, can be expressed through others than the Communists...
...what would happen to Jacques Soustelle, the fiery "wrecker of Cabinets" who masterminded the revolt that led to De Gaulle's return to power. Ambitious Jacques Soustelle clearly felt he deserved one of the senior Cabinet posts-Defense, Foreign Affairs or Interior -rather than his present Ministry of Information. But the widespread (and possibly exaggerated) suspicion of his tactics and his intentions makes many fear the prospect that as head of the Interior he would control the police. When newsmen queried him on his prospects, Anthropologist Soustelle gloomily quipped: "Perhaps I will go back to Mexico and my Aztecs...