Word: referendum
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...October, Harvard upset Princeton, a school Cambridge men scorned because it still refused to admit Negroes, by a 19-14 score. During the game Boston police confiscated all issues of the Massachusetts Free Press, which Harvard students were distributing outside the Stadium. The Press supported the impending state referendum legalizing the dispensation of birth control information by doctors. Boston's finest ended the effort because, as they explained, "someone would have to come and pick up all the pamphlets that were dropped in the streets...
...brightest female panel discussion in television. Last week, at the urging of her ABC packagers ("They thought the show needed a little goosing-up"), Virginia introduced her first male panelist, David Merrick. The show bombed (Merrick was positively fatuous), and at its close, Virginia asked for a mail-in referendum on further gentlemen callers...
...again." But, he added, "this time, especially this time, I need?yes, I need?the French people to tell me that this is their wish." It was an extraordinary and almost touching admission from De Gaulle. Then he explained that he intended to submit some time in June a referendum to the voters in which he would spell out his proposals for modifying French life...
...Tough Policy. In the referendum that De Gaulle hopes to submit to French voters, probably on June 16, he will in all likelihood spell out some of the reforms that he intends to accomplish. Though his ultimate goal obviously must be to loosen up France's rigid and exclusive social structure, he will probably stick to relatively concrete proposals. For the workers, he is likely to offer some form of effective participation in the management of the plant, perhaps through strengthened worker-proprietor councils. For the students, he almost certainly will offer a far greater voice in university affairs, plus...
Bottled Frustrations. Can De Gaulle win his referendum? If it were to take place at once, TIME'S Paris bureau guesses, despite the wave of protests against him, that there might be enough conservative Frenchmen to give him a fifty-fifty chance. The unanswerable question is how the mood of France will develop in the next few weeks. The passage of time may work in De Gaulle's favor; the general strike can hardly continue for three more weeks until the referendum. If a semblance of order returns, so may the basic realization that however the Gaullist regime has failed...