Word: regent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making it a three-way contest with Senators Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, Humphrey began to emerge from the shadows of three years of veepship, during which many had dismissed him as an overly obsequious vice regent. "I will do everything I can for the cause of peace in the world," he told a wildly enthusiastic audience of A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders in Baton Rouge, La. "I will do everything I can to keep social progress moving forward in America. And I ask your help, and the help of all Americans, in doing this." Responded Victor Bussie, the Louisiana A.F.L.-C.I.O...
This month, the board voted 16 to 4 to reject the Reagan budget, which even conservative Regent Edwin W. Pauley described as "unlivable." In a detailed, 15-page analysis, Hitch argued that the budget provides no money at all for new programs or improvements, will curtail much-needed growth at new campuses in Santa Cruz, San Diego and Irvine. Officials at Berkeley insist that 1,600 students will have to spend at least an additional quarter on campus because required classes are overcrowded. The cuts will even reduce planned additions to university police...
...place as long as Don Juan is alive. And then, of course, there is the matter of whether anyone will be king. There is nothing in Spain's supposedly monarchial constitution to prevent Franco-or the administrators of the government he leaves behind-from naming a permanent regent instead of a king...
That ended the diplomatic boycott that foreign nations had imposed on the Athens regime since King Constantine fled to Rome last December after his abortive coup. From now on, the junta will be able to conduct the business of state just like any other government, and the junta-appointed regent will be recognized as head of state by other nations until the King returns. The action undercut King Constantine's bargaining position with the junta, but he kept silent...
...promulgation and adoption of a constitution, and 2) national elections. What he thinks of the present draft, which would limit his once broad powers, is not known. His strongest leverage on the junta has been that foreign governments have continued to recognize him, not the junta-appointed regent, as Greece's legitimate head of state. But at week's end Tur key-Greece's traditional enemy-became the first important nation to extend official recognition to the junta. Some other countries are now likely to follow the Turkish example...