Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite charges of "covering up" and hints of a whitewash by several Council members, the Student Council voted 8 to 5 last night against holding another college-wide referendum...
Ohio: If Republican Incumbent C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 42, ever had a chance for reelection, he muffed it when he came out in favor of Ohio's right-to-work referendum. For patient, politically magic Mike Di Salle, 50, onetime chief of Harry Truman's Office of Price Stabilization, who challenged O'Neill unsuccessfully two years ago, that cinched it. Counting on a heavy labor vote in highly industrial Ohio, as well as widespread dissatisfaction with Governor O'Neill, Di Salle was not disappointed. His winning margin: 3 to 2. Right-to-work...
...Ivory Coast's Political Boss Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who lives in Paris as the only black African in Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet. He has long ruled the Ivory Coast as a personal fief, and when he ordered it to vote yes in the De Gaulle referendum, 99% of the voters obligingly did so. As he prepared last week to fly home, Houphouet-Boigny sent a message ahead of him that was read to a public meeting...
...Recent difficulties of the News have aroused an interest in the paper within and without the College," the editors explained. Although an all-College referendum for Student Government Association subsidy was defeated two weeks ago, the News plans to finance publication through advertising and subscription revenue...
Ohio voters decisively voted "no" by a 2-1 majority on the referendum proposal. The same outcome was indicated by fragmentary returns from California, Colorado, and Washington...