Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...penthouse suite, could have noted in the first several states an extra vote here and there beyond his minimal requirements. Then Florida and Georgia came through with large majorities?evidence that the Reagan movement had collapsed. Maryland delivered 18 out of 26. Four Michiganders deserted Romney. Mississippi's unit rule held for the entire delegation of 20. The undermining of Case's position in New Jersey produced a welcome 18 out of 40. In Pennsylvania, Nixon picked up 22 more...
...leader of the liberal faction and an urban expert, Rocky might, if traditional rules operated, expect a top post in a Nixon Cabinet, perhaps Secretary of State or Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Temperament -both his and Nixon's-would probably rule this out. Rockefeller actually says that he would reject an offer even if it were tendered: "I can do more in my own state...
...irony. Yet the Soviets kept their findings secret. The Kremlin wanted to hold the autopsy reports back, the author claims, "in case someone might try to slip into the role of 'the Führer saved by a miracle,' " and to continue the investigation in order to rule out all possibility of error. Clearly, neither reason matters any longer-as proved by the fact that Bezymenski was allowed to publish his book...
Died. Herbert V. Kohler Sr., 76, crusty, conservative chairman of Kohler Co., the big plumbing-fixture firm that weathered the longest major strike in U.S. history; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Sheboygan, Wis. Struck by U.A.W. Local 833 in 1954 (among the issues: binding arbitration and a seniority rule in layoffs), Kohler held out for 81 years and kept his factory open with strikebreakers until the National Labor Relations Board finally forced him to the bargaining table...
...circumstances, Professor William Bishin of the University of Southern California argues that "Fortas couldn't possibly give unbiased consideration to the rights of anti-Viet Nam war demonstrators. If the question of the constitutionality of the war should come before the court, Fortas would not be able to rule upon it from an impartial position." Making the same point another way, U.C.L.A. Politics Professor David Farrelly wonders "how impartial the court could have been in 1952 when it had to decide on the constitutionality of the President's seizure of the steel mills, if the Justices had been...