Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City has scheduled a series of such meetings throughout the month, to be followed by a convention which will set up the plans for the elections. After a referendum on the convention's results, the City Council will pass the ordinance creating the model cities agency. Election of the neighborhood representatives on the agency will follow...
After the plans for the program are completed, the residents of the model neighborhood will be able to veto them in a referendum. If the plans are approved, it wil take some eight to ten years to carry out the program...
...funds would be better used for hospitals and schools, while others simply disliked Staechelin (many a Easier had owned stock in the airline, and many others lost their jobs when it went bankrupt). The anti-Picasso faction drummed up enough signatures on a petition to force a referendum. After a spirited campaign, the city opted last week to buy the Picassos by a vote of 32,118 to 27,190. With the money assured, the city government cannily required the foundation, as part of the final transaction, to leave the impressionists and postimpressionists on loan for the next 15 years...
...your brief story on the results of the recent Vietnam Referendum, a blanket statement is made about "the Harvard students and Faculty members who organized the Referendum" being "particularly surprised by the dovish stance of students at Emmanuel College ..." This particular participant was not at all surprised, and is inclined to regard this surprise itself as based on inexperience, perhaps snobbery. Emmanuel College students have been at discussions of disarmament and peace in this area (as well as active on the race front), apparently with more pertinacity than local visibility. David Riesman '31 Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences
...which was chosen by Cliffies in a referendum last week, to replace the Radcliffe Government Association, must be officially approved before it can go into effect...