Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, the convention produced some welcome reforms. The venerable unit rule, often used to smother dissent in party affairs, was summarily scrapped. A standing measure to encourage minority representation at future conventions was strengthened. Rebels challenging the regular delegations from Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi got full or partial satisfaction. Said one disgruntled Georgian: "The white conservative vote in the South is not wanted by the present party leaders...
...secretary to the city council at 25, Daley scrambled upward through the party ranks. Hence his understanding of Chicago's muscles and nerves is deeply intuitive. But it is growing archaic, as the mayor's lines to the Negro community atrophy and he continues to rule in the personalistic style of a benevolent Irish despot of the wards...
...years of Latin American experience, was well known for his quiet professionalism. In keeping with his taste for unobtrusiveness, he had dismissed an armed escort assigned earlier this year. While his assassination, the first ever of a U.S. ambassador, naturally shocked Washington, Guatemalans were not so startled. Since civilian rule supplanted a rigid military regime in 1966, Communist and right-wing terrorists have killed some 2,000 people in their running crossfire-among them two U.S. military advisers, Army Colonel John Webber Jr. and Naval Lieut. Commander Ernest Munro, who were murdered in Guatemala City last January. The killing...
...initial test of the new court's courage will come from its right to rule on the constitutionality of the six star-chamber courts that were created by the government to try cases related to the war. Whether the Supreme Court justices will dare to challenge those capricious representatives of the executive remains to be seen. But the star cham bers are clearly in need of some sort of control. Presided over by judge advocates with no legal training, those courts have allowed no pre-trial examination or right of appeal. Moreover, they have been ruling on both military...
...EXCEPTION AND THE RULE, adapted from Brecht by the West Side Story team, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. Directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Zero Mostel. Oilmen race across an Asian desert...