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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week's cover story on Georges Pompidou, De Gaulle's likeliest successor, goes beyond the present political turmoil within France to examine the reasons for the general's defeat, the mood of France in 1969 and the prospects for change. The story was written by Contributing Editor William Doerner and edited by Senior Editor Jason McManus, who, as TIME'S Paris-based Common Market correspondent from 1962 to 1964, covered Britain's first bid to join Europe and De Gaulle's abrupt rejection of that effort...
...they do for all other elected officials. If no candidate got at 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...
Cecil A. Roberts will retire as director of Buildings and Grounds and of the Planning Office at the end of June, after 44 years of work for Harvard. William Murphy, the present deputy director will take his position...
PUSEY: You're talking now about the present Fellows--Overseers...
...present policy of Harvard University is that NROTC must have extracurricular status only. We can accept NROTC midshipmen only if the NROTC program can be conducted in conformity with this policy...