Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Students for the DESTRUCTION of Society), for popularizing the neologism "ROT-C," with emphasis on the first syllable. I would like to add, for Professor Lipset and others of his ilk, that there really is no need for a 'student referendum" since 2-3% of the students seem to be calling the shots anyway...
...effect of asking for a referendum is to delay the decision on ROTC," Lipset explained. "If it turns out that people want to vote at the meeting, then I don't want to hold up the action...
...raucous City Council meeting last night Cambridge City Councillors and members of the Cambridge Rent Control Referendum Campaign exchanged bitter charges concerning the problem of rent control and other questions facing the city...
...Every member of this City Council is a servant of the rich," said Robert Schwartz, a member of the Referendum Campaign, "and if the poor workers of the city want rent control they will have to roll over the City Council. We're going to roll over you guys. You have done nothing to stop the Universities. Harvard students will stop Harvard even if we have to tear it apart like Columbia and San Francisco State...
...statement and others like it came after the Council unanimously passed a motion permitting the Referendum Campaign to set up tables on the sidewalks of Cambridge in order to collect signatures on a rent control petition. The Council had tabled the request last week when it was revealed that the campaign was backed by the Peace and Freedom Party. At that meeting Councillors Bernard Goldberg, Thomas H. D. Mahoney, and Daniel J. Hayes voted to table the motion because of the "inflammatory literature" the Party had passed out on previous occasions...