Word: selections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final choice "when the election has been entrusted to the people." Despite the fact that the Georgia assembly is malapportioned, said Justice Hugo Black's majority opinion, there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution "which either expressly or impliedly dictates the method a state must use to select its governor...
...damage, the 14 NATO military members formed a new high council to study a whole new defense system: the Defense Planning Committee. They also set up the new seven-nation Nuclear Planning Group, of which West Germany is a key member. The group's mission will be to select targets, deploy NATO's 7,000 warhead nuclear force, and recommend when, if ever, to fire in anger. But the ownership of the weapons and final decision to fire remain with the U.S. The hope is that the new committee will satisfy the West German demand for full-fledged...
...Commission will very likely do in II-S to satisfy these critics. If this is done, a lottery such as the one proposed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D.-Mass.) would be needed to select men from the swollen draft pool. In the lottery system, all men reaching the age of 18 would be examined by the local draft board. Those who passed the physical and mental tests would be assigned a number by the board. After these numbers were assigned, the selective service system would conduct a national drawing. It would put into a "fish bowl" as many numbers...
...Brookline and Elm street, would take the highway straight through the City near Central Square and, in the process, uproot between 3000 and 5000 people. Another possible path for the highway would run through an industrial area in the Eastern part of the City. The DPW is expected to select the Brookline-Elm St. route--one which has aroused strong opposition in Cambridge, but which the DPW actually approved last spring. This approval was subsequently withdrawn in the fall when Gov. John A. Volpe ordered a review of the project...
...ranking strikes at the very foundations of the educational system which the 2-S was designed to protect. Selective Service, in an attempt to modify the harsher aspects of the 2-S, has turned the task of helping to select draftable students over to the professors. Many teachers are unwilling to do the dirty-work, and feel that Selective Service has introduced an extraneous and corrosive element into student-faculty relations...