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Word: selections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to ensure a cross-section of groups, the top nine candidates in the voting win positions on the City Council, and the top six join the School Committee. The new City Council then elects the Cambridge mayor and vice-mayor from within its own group. They also select a City Manager, who is subject to Council removal at any time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 38 Enter Council, School Races; Most Incumbents Seek Re-election | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...became a regular only after the hotel at its own expense installed a custom-built, old-fashioned bathtub complete with bronze legs, just like the one in his London town house. Says Palais General Manager Roger Boltz: "As long as there are people who want to live in a select and secluded environment or achieve visible social status-and this means until the end of mankind-places like ours have a function to fill. They will never disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Aristocrats of the Continent | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

Another kind of battle is beginning in South Viet Nam. It is not a battle of bullets but of ballots. Next Sept. 3, the country's 5.2 million eligible voters will be able to select their first President since Ngo Dinh Diem, who was assassinated in 1963. In a fractious, war-racked country, a weak victor could prove disastrous. A sensible leader, by establishing a popularly based government, could do much to assure stability, security and a democratic destiny for South Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Battle of Ballots | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...union officers also could not understand why Harvard was not willing to accept the results of the December 7, 1966, merger vote as sign of the intent of the BGMA's membership, nor could they understand why Harvard was unwilling to hold its own election to select a bargaining agent for the BGMA...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: A Troubled Year For Labor Relations | 6/15/1967 | See Source »

...major difficulty is how to turn community participation into good education. One proposal advocates electing local school boards and then giving them wide powers over policy-making and personnel hiring in their districts. Another proposal would allow a community committee to select each school principal, while extending his authority. A third would elect district superintendents...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: City Education on the Verge of Revolution | 6/13/1967 | See Source »

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