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...enlist the grass roots support necessary to make him a force at the Democratic National Convention. But last week McGovern continued to show surprising organizational strength as his enthusiastic, and mainly youthful, supporters dominated enough party caucuses in Idaho to win 45% of the district delegates, who will select the state's delegation to the National convention. Edmund Muskie got only 17.8% and Hubert Humphrey 5%. McGovern did almost as well in similar caucuses in Vermont, neighboring Muskie's Maine. He appeared to have won about 400 district delegates against nearly 250 for Muskie and only eight...
...city committees presently nominate people for one of the four election commissioners, and select delegates to the state gubernatorial conventions. The reform group hopes to further use ward committees to draft legislation, to lobby and to open channels between the city and its local government...
...will select men for the eight-cared heavyweight boast, for the four-with-coxswain, and two alternates. The fourteen rowers will have about seven weeks to train together in preparation for the late summer Olympics...
...past, open competition was held among organized crews to select the fastest boat and designate it as the U.S. rowing representative...
Many institutions object that the privacy of their files, which they claim is necessary in order to select and promote faculty, would be jeopardized. "A great many institutions fear that HEW personnel may leak material," Sheldon E. Steinbach, an attorney for the American Council on Education, said last week. "When hiring, schools need a high degree of confidence in order to evaluate what are often very fine points in deciding who to hire." He went on to explain that universities also saw this as a dangerous precedent: "A couple of years ago, it may have been the subversive control board...