Word: totalled
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Hickel's nomination has incensed the nation's conservationists, who instinctively distrust an Interior Secretary with a less than total commitment to preserve what is left of nature in the U.S. Though Hickel is a successful businessman and for the past two years has been a hard-driving and popular Governor of Alaska, he is regarded among conservationists as the archetype of a state that is impatient to tap its latent wealth. There is so much of Alaska for so few Alaskans that they have never seemed to care very much whether some of the state...
...voters to reflect their choice. By tradition, all the electoral votes should have gone automatically to Richard Nixon as winner of a plurality of the state's popular vote. Rather than ratify the Republican victory, however, Bailey, a loyal John Bircher, handed over one-thirteenth of the total votes to Wallace, because, as he put it: "Nixon has already clearly shown to us that we are going to have more of the same...
...vote. If none gets that percentage, there would be a runoff election between the two leading candidates. A more realistic approach to the problem is offered in the Senate by Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who says there is "no more pressing business facing the nation," is pushing for the total abolition of the Electoral College system. Presidential elections would be decided by popular vote only. Whether any of the resolutions succeeds or not depends on the support of Richard Nixon. Predicts Senate Judiciary Chairman James O. Eastland: "If the next President pushes electoral reform...
Without doubt, he would have loved another four years in power. A second full term would have given him a total of nine years in office, more than any other President except Franklin Roosevelt. "More" was his byword. And more time in office would have given him the opportunity to get the nation out of Viet...
...senior tutor said last night that it seemed the Faculty still has the power to decide about scholarships if they choose to do so. "This summer, the Faculty Committee on Financial Aid limited the total possible reduction in scholarships as a result of probation to $500 a year per student," he said. "Most reductions in scholarships are converted to loans," he added...