Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, returning from a state visit to South Viet Nam, Garcia discovered that in his absence Macapagal and Manahan had got together, agreed to run a coalition slate against Garcia's wallowing Nacionalista regime in the Senate elections this fall. If everything goes well, Liberal-Progressives may merge completely in a year-just in time to wage a fire-breathing presidential campaign against Garcia himself...
Both Dodge and Warren have compiled impressive records so far this season. Dodge has dropped only one match while winning 11, and Warren has an equally brilliant 10-2 slate. Reilly, the third man, has taken seven of his ten matches, and the team as a whole has a record of 10-2 for the season, with a 1-1 mark in Ivy League play...
Charges and counter-charges flew last night as each of two rival groups claimed the right to become the official Harvard Students for Nixon Club. After three hours of intense negotiations, four members from each group and one "independent" were selected for the provisional slate of officers in an evenly-split compromise agreement...
...rain, I knew he sent it, and my prayers were answered.'' Those menacing black clouds, and the fierce thunderstorms accompanied by hailstones bigger than cherries, played an important role last week in answering the prayers of Councilman Fisher: he and the rest of his Democratic coalition slate, aided in part by the weather that kept many voters indoors, swept into office in Kansas City's municipal elections. In the process they knocked out the nonpartisan Citizens Association Party that had ruled the once corrupt city for 19 healthy years. Citizens Association survivor of the hail-battered election...
Surprisingly enough, the system functions with more than moderate success. Few girls want to endanger their liberal privileges by abusing them, and fewer still find the cumulative social probation a stiff penalty, since the slate is wiped clean at the end of each semester. The rare cases of "false registration" are, however, considered serious by the Radcliffe Student government. On at least one occasion, the Administration has followed Student Government's recommendation to expel a girl for this offense...