Word: retained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...points for 15 minutes of the second half, when the varsity staged a desperate full court press to break up a stall. Bob Repetto hit for seven points in less than two minutes to close the gap to 62-58, but Tufts was able to withstand the pressure and retain its advantage...
...wish to eliminate an institution, then, which has in our experience been composed of a group of enervated politicians. We yet wish to retain a forum for student opinion. Such a forum might easily be made up of one representative from each House Committee, thus replacing the student council with an Inter-House Council. The advantages of such a scheme over the present system are: s(1)College-wide campaigns for election would be eliminated since the student body would only indirectly choose the representatives to this all-college body. (2) The quality of representatives would automatically be increased...
...votes last summer on the civil rights bill, Kennedy managed to please hardly anyone.* Studying each section of the bill on its own merits, Kennedy encouraged the North (and annoyed the South) by voting, unsuccessfully, to retain Part III, which would have given the Attorney General extraordinary powers to enforce civil rights-a position stronger than the President's own. Then, having consulted three Harvard professors, he pleased the South (and infuriated diehard Northern liberals) by voting for the amendment requiring jury trials in criminal (but not civil) contempt cases...
PARIS, Nov. 29--The government of premier Felix Gaillard tonight won two votes of confidence from the French National Assembly on plans for the future of rebellious Algeria. These plans to retain French rule--with relaxations--already have been rejected by rebel leaders in the three-year-old North African...
...Tuskegee. It's our home. That's why we asked to be taken back. For years we've tried to help build a better Tuskegee, one in which we share in the privileges as well as the responsibilities. But Negroes don't feel they can retain their self-respect by surrendering. We do not live by bread alone...