Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator Robert F. Kennedy appeared to have won a second victory last night. A slate of delegates committed to him led with 60 per cent of the vote in the District of Columbia with partial returns from 128 precincts. Two other slates, both supporting Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey, split the remaining 40 per cent...
...Faculty. Their request has been denied. (As this is written, Junior Faculty members have also been denied a voice.) The situation will be discussed without representation by all concerned groups and therefore undemocratically. The Faculty Ad Hoc Committee, with whose representatives we have been meeting, is a split body. They have been trying to negotiate with us over matters on which their group has no consensus, and which will subsequently have to be brought to the Administration anyway. Under these circumstances, it is pointless to continue negotiating with a committee that does not have the authority to put forth...
...Humphrey are from Minnesota. The Constitution does not bar two men from one state running together, but it precludes the Electoral College votes of that state from being cast for both men. Thus, if a Humphrey-McCarthy ticket carried Minnesota, the ten electors would either have to split their votes between the two or not vote at all for one of the offices. For this reason, and because of the hard-dying desire for geographic balance?even in the era of nationwide TV and jet travel?no major party could lightly risk running a one-state ticket...
...example, the Weyerhaeuser Co. teamed up with the Palo Alto, Calif., home-building firm of Brown & Kauffmann to start an $18 million residential community on the San Francisco peninsula at Los Gatos. Weyerhaeuser will invest more than $3,000,000 in its first venture in home building, and split profits with Brown & Kauffmann. Most of the money is to be borrowed from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at a rate (71%) well below that which the home-building firm might itself have had to pay. Though small companies still dominate the housing business, the trend is running clearly in the other...
...past, Harvard and Yale have split the series with 35 victories each...