Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convention votes. Members of Pennsylvania's 130-vote delegation met for the first time and, ignoring pleas from Kennedy backers to remain uncommitted, gave Humphrey about 100 of their votes. In Missouri, Kennedy and McCarthy forces defeated a move to give Humphrey all 60 votes under a unit rule, but the Vice President was the heavy favorite at the state convention. Delegates in many states now regarded as strong for Humphrey will be under no compulsion to remain loyal until the national convention, but for the time being, Humphrey's advantage seems unassailable...
...intense maneuvering until one side won enough supporters from the independent center parties to try to form a government. In the less likely event of a severe loss at the polls by his party, Charles De Gaulle would most probably interpret the results as a repudiation of his rule and step down from the presidency. "The people must speak," De Gaulle told his Ministers, adding pointedly: "We must draw the consequences...
...reaching for France. Despite the present surcease from violence, the country faces a crucial time of testing as it wrestles with the problems of achieving a more responsive government in a society that needs a greater measure of self-determination than De Gaulle's decade of authoritarian rule has allowed...
...better part of the academic year. It started with a HPC resolution last fall that students be allowed to reap the educational benefits of reading over their old exams by picking them up if they wanted. Ford explained a month or two later that he could find no rule against...
...question bounced back to the Committee on Educational-Policy midway through this term and it decided that there were indeed no rules on the question and that there needn't be. Acting on an HPC request, Ford reminded the Faculty of the non-rule last Tuesday...