Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After an amazing display of political ballyhoo, redundant rhetoric, and parliamentary chaos, a confused Cambridge City Council last night defeated a proposal for a non-binding rent control referendum by a vote of 5-3, with one councillor voting "present...
Then Vellucci swung into action again. Voting "present" himself and relying on the anti-referendum councillors for the rest of the votes, Vellucci completely routed his political opposition withoutdamaging his self-proclaimed image as "a great champion of rent control." The referendum proposal was defeated...
George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, said he had drafted an amendment to the motion which called for "the fastest possible withdrawal"- instead of "immediate withdrawal." But this reportedly was unsatisfactory to both liberals and conservatives, and be will not present the amendment...
...married to Victor Franz (Michael Strong) who has been fending with his brother Walter (Sheppard Strudwick) for 28 years. Although the brothers' abilities and inclinations were similar, Victor became a policeman, Walter a successful surgeon. Both Victor and Walter seem unhappy and blame others for forcing them into their present situation. However, each is responsible for his own choice- a choice that had to be made and must be recognized. What Esther often says of herself is true of the two men, "I can never believe what I see before...
...everybody would agree to the present male-female ratio, that would be fine; but they won't. I think the enrollment of women at Harvard must grow," he said. He stressed, however, that the number of men would not be reduced...