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...Turks opposed the constitution itself, which provides for a two-house legislature, a seven-year term for the President, land reform, and a guarantee of the right to strike. As the pundits saw it, some "no" voters wanted to show their disapproval of the Republicans; others felt that a vote against the constitution might save Menderes & Co. from the gallows; still others were trying to voice dissatisfaction with the regime of General Cemal Gursel, whose military coup had thrown the Menderes government out of power in May 1960. Reportedly, some Menderes supporters in rural areas campaigned for "no" votes...
...things stand, the fate of a program is likely to depend on how many students take an interest in it. And this can lead to some interesting contradictions. Thus, the seven-year college-law school program died some years ago for lack of student interest. Soph Standing shows every sign of prospering despite its unpopularity in Faculty circles. The ironic contrast of student opinion with Faculty attitudes was revealed in a Questionnaire by the Student Council Committee on Educational Policy which showed eighty per cent of Soph Standing students supporting continuation of the program without substantial change. As the program...
...music director of the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, 42, has suffered some critical lumps (too much globetrotting, excessive body English on the podium), but ticket sales have been the highest in history. Last week the grateful symphony expressed its appreciation by giving the versatile virtuoso a new seven-year contract-its longest since the turn of the century...
...from New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller). However, other things being equal, the balance of G.O.P. power in New Jersey is held not by nationally prominent Republicans but by county and district professionals. They have little love for Mitchell, claiming that he gave them no patronage during his seven-year Cabinet stint; and their candidate is Bergen County's Walter H. Jones, majority leader of the state senate and legal counsel for the Bergen County Sewer Authority, an agency that was set up by legislation he had sponsored...
...Down & Around. Three years and a Ph.D. later. Keys headed for Europe on a National Research Fellowship and began a seven-year odyssey that took him to Copenhagen to study under Nobel Prize-winning Biochemist August Krogh, to Cambridge University for another degree, to Harvard for human-fatigue experiments, and to an 18,000-ft. peak in the Chilean Andes for high-altitude studies of miners. Then he landed at the Mayo Clinic, where he found himself "in a real medical environment" for the first time. Dr. Keys also found his wife-to-be, Margaret Haney, when he interviewed...