Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...referendum, in essence, asks whether the people of Cambridge would prefer plurality voting. Thus, to keep PR, one must vote NO, and this is what we advise...
...National SDS referendum on their draft policy will be mailed to members tomorrow. Regardless of the national vote, the local Harvard chapter will decide its policy at a general membership meeting to be held next Tuesday...
...issue by providing that the home-rule question be put to a vote of District residents within 100 days. If approved, an elected charter board would have 210 days in which to draft a plan for city government; this in turn would have to be approved in a citywide referendum. If passed, the charter would then go to Congress for its approval or rejection...
Actually, if the legislature cooperates and the electorate approves the measure in a referendum, Wallace could win easily next year. Though it had been widely assumed that he would try to capture John Sparkman's U.S. Senate seat instead-another easy goal-he decided after all that an entrenched Governor would be stronger than a freshman Senator...
True, the substitute bill passed by the House called for a city referendum and the drafting of a charter. What this amounts to, however, is a delaying action. A Senate-House conference will be held, probably net year. If the features of the House bill are retained and the measure is passed, a referendum (thoroughly unnecessary since Washington voted 6-to-1 for home rule on last year's Presidential ballot) will be held. The charter might be drafted and sent back to Congress by 1967, and this is precisely the point: no one knows who will be in Congress...