Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Tories, but they have not yet turned to us," said Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell at the Labor Party conference last month. Last week the diagnosis was confirmed in a by-election in the ancient East Anglian market town of Ipswich, held to fill the parliamentary seat left vacant by the death of former Laborite Works Minister Richard Stokes...
...when "the Eastern European seat" last fell vacant, the U.S. supported the Philippines against Yugoslavia, arguing that the 1945 gentlemen's agreement had been intended to last for only two years. As a compromise, it was finally agreed that Yugoslavia and the Philippines should each occupy the disputed seat for half of the normal two-year term. Japan's election carried U.S. strategy a step further. By backing an Asian nation, the U.S. had weaned part of the Afro-Asian bloc away from the Soviet candidate, seemed well on its way to nullifying the so-called Eastern European...
...resignation of Alfred Friendly, Jr. '59, as vice-President of the Harvard Young Democratic Club led to new elections. Derek Winans '60 was chosen to replace Friendly, who in turn was elected Treasurer. Jay Leary '60, will fill the office of Secretary left Vacant by Winans. Fred Leventhal '60, will serve as Activities Chairman...
...rubber-stamp ranch-house community of Levittown, Pa. (pop. 60,000), the vacant house at 30 Darkleaf Lane last week came alive with a distinction all its own. From one roof peak flew an American flag, and from another-spotlighted by night-the stars and bars of the Confederacy. Each evening the house of the Confederacy was crowded with the members of the newly formed Dogwood Hollow Social Club who worked hard at a hard-boiled bad-neighbor policy. With windows wide open they chattered loudly over coffee, volumed up a phonograph, harmonized on Old Black Joe, aiming all this...
...expected to make a quick return to action however, is Jim Keating, who held the guard position opposite Harold Anderson until he was injured against Tufts. Pete Eliades, who has seen some action at center, will be shifted to the vacant guard slot to provide needed weight, it was announced...