Word: selections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only progress made has been leveling of some of the building sites. But. says a Burmese official: "The Russians have been quite amiable in their personal relationships. The British, who built our engineering college and polytechnic institute, were very exacting in matters of personal comfort. They demanded select housing for each family, complete with new furniture. With the Soviets we put 20-odd families into five houses, and give them secondhand furniture. There have been no complaints...
...election of a federal legislature and formation of its first government, the eleven main islands are gradually getting more freedom from Britain in local affairs. This week a big helping of self-government goes to Barbados, sugargrowing "little England" of the West Indies, where for 300 years a select "plantocracy" has run the British Commonwealth's third oldest Parliament (after Britain itself and Bermuda). Governor Sir Robert Arundell will hand over part of his remaining powers to Barbados' first Cabinet, bossed by Socialist Prirne Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams...
...first election is to be held early next year, and the Congress chosen then will select a President. Presently favored by all but right-wing Conservatives is Guillermo León Valencia, a middle-of-the-road Conservative. He will take office Aug. 7, and the ruling five-man military junta has promised for its part to step out on that date...
...best known story of F.D.R.'s "democracy" in college concerns his supposed reform of the class elections in his senior year. For years the class day officers had been drawn from the select clubs, which were better organized for political maneuvering than the mass of the student body. A year or two earlier changes in the election procedure had been proposed, and F.D.R. continued, rather than originated, the campaign. "There is a higher duty than to vote for one's personal friends," he admonished his classmates, "and that is to secure for the whole class leaders who really deserve...
...agency is now ready to take reservations, Burke said, although it has not yet settled final administrative details. The H.S.A. must: collect information to determine the amount of business the agency can expect to handle; select one of three student candidates to run the concession; and arrange the working schedule and mechanics for handling incoming calls. An advertising campaign is also being planned...