Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty was reported to have chortled loudly last week at the thought of the popular myth that they were forbidden to give back student exams. Dean Ford explained to the meeting that there is no Faculty rule against handing back bluebooks and none of the departments seem to have legislated on this question either...
GOVERNMENT by a strong executive, by Cabinet, by legislature -these are the terms most often used in assessing the two-party system. Less frequently discussed is the question of cohesive party rule. Given their fragmented condition, neither major U.S. party today is cemented to a clearly defined constituency of region or class; both grope for a majority among shifting factions. In a recent speech, Richard Nixon argued that there is an alternative, that in fact a first-of-its-kind "new alignment for American unity" has been forming...
LEADERS must know what their people are thinking. If France's Charles de Gaulle or Columbia's Grayson Kirk had followed that simple rule, they might have saved themselves a lot of grief. Therein lies the chief justification for opinion polls. Yet there is also something vaguely troubling about the polls, those incessant readings of the U.S. voter's psyche...
...chestnut trees hacked down to make barricades, the blood spilled on the capital's boulevards. France was a nation in angry rebellion ?at times, it seemed, not far removed from civil war. It was a measure of De Gaulle's stature that he offered to submit his continued rule as President to the will of the French people. It was a measure of France's bitter new mood that this time he might be turned...
...Selective Promiscuity. Decisions already in the law books told him that his products could only be proscribed if they had no redeeming social value- and he seemed to be challenging the Government to prove they did not. The Supreme Court answered the challenge by surprising Ginzburg with a new rule: his methods of advertising and distribution, said the court, made him guilty of peddling pornography. It upheld a five-year prison sentence, which Ginzburg is still trying to get reduced...