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...committee of tenants, landlords, and others appointed by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci is working to select candidates for the administrator post. They expect to have a suggestion ready by Thursday...
Egypt's constitution allowed up to 60 days for the country to select a successor to President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Only nine days were needed. Last week, in Cairo's Victorian National Assembly building, 353 members of the Assembly formally selected Vice President Anwar Sadat as the new leader of the country. This week the populace will vote in a yes-or-no national referendum. The outcome is so certain that preparations are already under way for Sadat's inauguration two days later...
...faculty by half and attracted some of the country's brightest young legal scholars, including Criminal Law Expert Anthony Amsterdam. He has headed a drive to raise $10.5 million for a new law school, research funds and more professors. Stanford's law students are among the most select in the nation (2,400 applications for 160 first-year places). Activist though they may be, the dean matches them idea for innovative idea. Says one admirer: "Manning assesses student support for an idea and then beats them...
...that Hambro is the despairing type. Norway's chief delegate to the U.N. since 1966, Hambro was the unanimous choice of the European members, whose turn it was by gentleman's agreement to select the president for the coming session; he was elected by 122 of 124 votes cast in a secret ballot.* The bespectacled Hambro, a delegate to the U.N. founding conference in 1945, is the son of the late Carl J. Hambro, who served as the last president of the League of Nations. As a student, young Edvard did research under a fellowship at League headquarters...
According to Burr, the Corporation will feel that it has failed in its task if the man they finally select is not supported by a large majority of students and Faculty...