Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe commencement organizers this week took the first step toward merging Harvard and Radcliffe commencement exercises. A referendum on the desirability of combining the traditionally separate ceremonies was included on an election ballot mailed to Radcliffe seniors to choose the senior class committee...
Every year the girls tell us that they want to hold the two commencements together. This year we felt that a referendum would serve as a mandate for the class committee to try." H. B. Dry '35, Radcliffe College Marshal, said...
...evening of October 3, after the signatures for the petition had been collected, Hokanson and a first-year MBA student approached Aldrich. The first-year student proposed a referendum whereby Aldrich would not release the petition to the press if a majority of the School asked him to withhold it. Aldrich rejected this idea...
Both candidates took strong, contrasting stands on national issues, turning the contest into a virtual mini-referendum on the Nixon Administration. The Republican, State Senator William Saltonstall, 42, campaigned almost down the line with the Administration on Viet Nam, the ABM and tax reform. In contrast, Democrat Michael J. Harrington, 33, a state representative, opposed Administration policies, attacking the ABM, calling for total withdrawal from Viet Nam by 1970 and criticizing high military spending...
...SAME DAY that President Nixon urged the nation to "stand fast" on Vietnam, the Massachusetts Sixth District sent Michael J. Harrington, '58 to Congress. The election was regarded by many as a referendum on Vietnam. Political commentators pointed out that it marked the fourth defeat suffered by Republicans since January in special Congressional races...