Word: supportables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spokesman for the group of six, Wendell Wallach, first year Divinity student, said yesterday that he estimated that the group's position had the support of about 30 students at the school. "The Divinity School Community," an informal assembly of student, faculty, and staff of the school, is expected to take a vote today on the position the group expressed in its leaflet, Wallach said...
...Harvard's talent can be put together to make a winning, perhaps championship, team. The election of Regan is probably the biggest boost that Harvard lacrosse can be given right now. Much of the progress depends at this point on positive response by everyone involved, including some generous alumni support...
Conservative Ploy. Labor's backbenchers, a traditionally insecure lot, are plainly worried that the issue of union reform may cost them their jobs. Without the prop of union treasuries and union electoral support, Labor candidates would virtually lose by default. In this dire situation, some backbenchers began wondering aloud in the corridors whether Labor might employ a favorite Conservative Party tactic-that of changing Prime Ministers whenever party popularity plummets. This ploy enables the party to shift the blame for past errors onto the shoulders of the outgoing leader...
...coup attempt barely got started, largely because the two most prominent candidates to replace Wilson-Home Secretary James Callaghan and Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins -refused to support the plotters. Moreover, three other Cabinet Ministers, led by Secretary for Social Services Richard Grossman, took a strongly pro-Wilson stand. The Prime Minister felt so confident that he was able to brag to a May Day rally: "I know what is going on. I am going on. Your government is going on!" Wilson thereupon confided that he intended "taking this country by the scruff of the neck" and forcing...
...University of Wisconsin, 35 senior professors have anonymously formed a group that was instrumental in gathering overwhelming faculty support for the administration's stand against Negro demands for a separate, autonomous black studies department; it is now leading a battle to restore proposed legislative cuts in the school's budget. "We're divided as to the changes we think should be made in the university," says one of the leaders, "but we're united in not wanting to see it closed down...