Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powers and responsibilities imposed upon me by these laws, I have ordered closed the senior high schools of Little Rock, in order to avoid the impending violence and disorder which would occur, and to preserve the peace of the community." Under another law Faubus proclaimed a school-district referendum for Oct. 7 on whether the schools should be integrated and reopened. Of the three white high schools in Little Rock, only Central has attempted integration...
...script prepared with loving care by the men around De Gaulle, the drama unveiled last week in the Place de la Republique was to be a demonstration of popular affection for De Gaulle-a stirring show that would prompt Frenchmen everywhere to vote oui in the Sept. 28 referendum on the new constitution. But when the show finally opened, it flopped...
Tiny (pop. 150) Kalskag was the first to report its vote last week in the Alaskan referendum on entering the Union. Kalskag's vote: 40 for statehood, none against. And by week's end, with votes still being counted across the 586,400-sq.-mi. territory, it was clear that most agreed with Kalskag; a record 50,000 voted 5 to 1 to become the 49th state. Next steps: after the general election, and after the final votes are certified. President Eisenhower will sign Alaska into statehood, with two U.S. Senators, one U.S. Representative, three votes...
...right to assume dictatorial powers whenever, in his judgment, national security was gravely threatened. The parliamentary commission also thought too harsh De Gaulle's implied ruling (TIME, Aug. 18) that any overseas territory casting a majority vote against the new constitution in next month's referendum would be considered to have voted itself clean out of the French Union. Instead, they proposed that, in such a case, the territorial assembly be allowed to decide whether or not to hold a second, local referendum on the specific issue of independence...
Creating the Myth. Experts in Paris expect the new De Gaulle constitution to get 60% to 65% of the vote in the Sept. 28 referendum, for which 45 million people (including 18 million residents of Algeria and the overseas territories) are already registered. Like shrewd politicians anywhere, De Gaulle and his aides are taking no chances. In Algeria the army is already hard at work on psychologically preparing the voters. ("To condition the Moslem populace, one has to create a De Gaulle myth," declares a recently published directive of the south Algerian military zone. "The picture of the general must...