Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...referendum last Spring, 683 girls voted in favor of dorm autonomy. Twenty-three voted to retain the present parietals of 72 hours a week...
...Cambridge rent control referendum campaign suffered an all-but-fatal blow yesterday afternoon. Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Henry Leen ruled that a rent control referendum cannot appear on the City's November 4 election ballot...
City Councillor Barbara W. Ackermann, who favors some kind of a rent control bill for Cambridge, said last night that she and three other pro-rent councillors may make an offer to get some kind of referendum onto the ballot. She declined to elaborate, saying that she had not yet consulted the other councillors about the future of the issue...
...consciousness of all France, was participation. It soon came to mean everything from worker representation on management boards to reducing the hold of small-town notables on local governments by the creation of new regional councils. France's reply, of course, was the non vote in the referendum that forced De Gaulle's exit. With this astounding rebuke from middle-class France to De Gaulle still fresh in his mind, and with immediate problems of economic solvency that must be dealt with, Pompidou may be forced to delay efforts to produce real social reform for some time...
...will meet this week to decide on the referendum results. However, their vote is subject to revision by the Review Board, a joint committee of administrators and students, and a final decision may not be reached for a few weeks...