Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With only 129 seats in the 259-seat House of Commons, Trudeau's Liberals are two votes short of a majority and therefore - like Canada's two previous governments since 1962 - dependent upon minority party support to get legislation passed. But the latest Gallup poll gives the Liberals 42% of the vote, their highest rating in 27 months, compared with 34% for the opposition Tories. Besides, though he will be with out a Parliament, Trudeau will continue as a highly visible Prime Minister until the elections...
...theory that a genetic abnormality may predispose a man to antisocial behavior, including crimes of violence, is deceptively and attractively simple, but will be difficult to prove. The argument in its favor rests upon the fact that in a few prisons sampled in the U.S., Britain and Australia, the proportion of inmates with an extra Y chromosome has been found to be higher than in the general population. The objections to the theory are that no one knows the true incidence of the extra-Y abnormality, and that even when it is shown to exist, no one knows...
...acre park. A later objection arose over the architectural plans: while Columbia intended to make part of the gym exclusively available to Harlem youngsters, it blundered by providing for a rather grand entrance opening on to the campus and a separate, less conspicuous one, facing Harlem. Negroes seized upon the gym as a symbol of back-door paternalism...
...girlie magazines from Sam Ginsberg at his Bellmore, L.I., stationery store and luncheonette. Ginsberg was tried and convicted under New York's new juvenile obscenity law; he appealed. His contention was that the right of a person to read or see material "cannot be made to depend upon whether the citizen is an adult or a minor." But the contention does not wash, said Justice William Brennan, who is frequently the author of the court's opinions on obscenity...
Coach Norm Shephard will rely upon the right arm of Ray Peters to preserve the Crimson's 4-0 record in the Eastern League play...