Word: selections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...count of Politburo membership. There is, in fact, other evidence suggesting that the policy decisions in recent years have been made by fewer and fewer men and in a more arbitrary fashion than previously. Or, to put it in other words, there are increasing signs that Mao (and a select few around him) have been monopolizing the processes of decision-making, and showing less concern for the opinions and experience of second- and third-echelon leaders. These tendencies are illustrated by the failure to convene plenums of the Party Central Committee, the importance of which is recognized by all students...
...fitting question, considering the spectacular fall that Congressman Powell had taken earlier in the week. By an overwhelming majority of nearly 3 to 1, rebellious House members overrode their leaders, scrapped the recommendations of a select committee and voted to exclude Powell from the 90th Congress for his well-documented wrongdoings. The vote reflected not only their sentiment but the nation's as well...
...select committee, chaired by Brooklyn's Emanuel Celler, dean of the House, had proposed public censure, loss of all seniority and a $40,000 fine -but not exclusion. Powell's "wrongdoing," said Celler, "does not rise to the heights of malevolence such as treason...
Quietly pleased by his classroom support, Becker is weighing the unusual offer against bids for his services from other schools around the country. Although impressed by such overwhelming student support for a good teacher, Berkeley officials are reluctant to interfere with the faculty's exclusive right to select members of its staff. If no room for Becker can be found in any of Cal's departments, the university apparently has no objection to his staying on to give noncredit courses, as what one official calls "an educational consultant" to the students...
...evidence that exonerated as well as implicated defendants. Inflammatory reporting is on the wane. Even if it recurs, the Supreme Court's Sheppard decision ordered trial judges to combat it with long available devices. They should hold pretrial hearings in private, grant continuances and changes of venue, select jurors from distant localities, sequester jurors to make sure that they do not read papers and magazines, listen to radio or watch TV-and readily grant mistrials when they...