Word: select
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the summer, many ideas for the content and organization of the course were forwarded, and only after long discussion were any final decisions reached. A great deal of reading was done by members of the seminar to filter through and select the appropriate list of books and articles...
...boondocks for the stint at manual labor that is demanded of intellectuals in Chairman Mao Tse-tung's domain. In Peking alone, 40,000 coeds from the class of '67 have been told to start new lives in frontier villages and communes far from the capital. A select few have been carefully exempted from that harsh regimen, however, and can be expected to remain so. Not surprisingly, they are daughters of the leadership-girls whom the Chinese, in pre-Communist days, called "gold boughs and jade leaves," or descendants of noble houses. Like the rest of China...
...outgrowth of last year's "Radical Critiques of American Society" course. The new course will consider three of America's central social problems, imperialism, race and labor. Each section will select facets of the three problems to consider. A fourth topic will be an overview of theory...
Forty-one days after they are named, the electors meet in their state capitols to choose the President. Legally, they are free to select whomever they please, although custom and party discipline usually bind them to the nominee they have pledged to support. If no candidate wins a clear majority of the electors' 538 votes, the contest moves to the House of Representatives, where, in theory, the 26 smallest states, with 17% of the U.S. population, could impose on the nation a President of their own choosing...
Student Power. Nader's investigators also claim that the FTC is reluctant to tackle enterprises that hire high-priced lawyers and is chary of publicizing its findings. The commission, Nader testified recently before the Senate Select Committee on Small Business, has made a study of the auto industry that is being kept secret from the taxpayer, while manufacturers have received copies of the findings. The FTC insists that the report is still incomplete...