Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would speak for the party in the Senate? If no one violated the unwritten rule ("Rock not the boat, lest the boat be rocked when you have hold of the tiller"), the Senate Democratic leadership would consist of well-liked, if rather bland Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and three conservatives: Long, Georgia's Richard Russell, who was to be named president pro tempore, and West Virginia's Robert Byrd, who was to be retained as chairman of the Democratic Conference. Of the four, only Long was vulnerable...
...proportion of blacks about where it is in the draft army-11%, or roughly the same as the nation as a whole. Pay rises would attract whites as much as blacks, just as both are drawn into police forces for similar compensation. The educational magnets, which tend to rule out many Negroes as too poorly schooled and leave many whites in college through deferments, would continue to exert their effect. Black Power militancy would work against Negroes' joining the Army. Ronald V. Dellums, a Marine volunteer 13 years ago and now one of two black councilmen in Berkeley, opposes...
...Suspension is a possibility," Glimp said. "I want to keep an open mind on this. We are considering the full range of possibilities." Suspension for disciplinary reasons goes in the rule book under the name of Required to Withdraw. This usually means the student must remain out of the College for two terms, and must petition the Ad Board for re-admission...
...life, a religion, a cult." As Washington bureau chief in the early '60s, Reston developed a first-class staff and a close friendship with the publisher, the late Orvil Dryfoos (husband of an Ochs granddaughter). It was virtually impossible for editors in New York to over rule Reston, even though some out ranked him. "His artistry as an administrator could not be measured simply by the fact that he usually got his own way," writes Talese. "What was more interesting was that Reston's way, as he presented it, seemed solely designed for the greater glory...
Ideally, in compliance with pro football's strict rule that all complaints about officiating be made privately and in writing, that is the kind of sweet demurrer Commissioner Pete Rozelle would have liked to receive from the Redskins' coach. Graham, however, chose the more traditional method of disputing a call: he blew his stack. He raged onto the field and threw a penalty flag at an official, and later told reporters: "The officials stole the game from us!" For such bad manners, Rozelle socked Graham with a reported $2,500 fine...