Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David M. Balabanian '60, chairman of the new committee, said last night that its report will be brought to a vote after discussion at tonight's Council meeting...
...Five more hours a week would be too much," commented Allen. He said that his primary purpose at the College was to obtain an education, rather than participate excessively in extracurricular activities. Gober complained that he and Allen were unable to vote at the meetings...
...voluble baron was confident of amicable relations: "The Big Four can't even agree to meet together. We will show the way, and reach total agreement in one day." The number of delegates was left up to the individual countries. They eliminated the veto problem by eliminating votes. Falz-Fein was chosen president, without a vote, and he rang a cowbell to bring the first meeting to order in a hilltop motel, the only one in Liechtenstein...
...Abstentions. When the vote was finally taken in the U.N. General Assembly. 45 nations approved a resolution implicitly "deploring" Red China's aggression in Tibet, and all nine nays were Communist. Red China thus stood roundly condemned before the world for its actions. But significantly, 26 nations abstained on the resolution. Among the abstainers, besides India, were such decidedly anti-Communist nations as France, Britain, Belgium, Portugal and Spain. Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon explained that his country has misgivings about Tibet's legal status, and therefore the U.N.'s right to intervene; he wants...
...Middlesex County Clerk of Courts is Councillor Edward J. Sullivan, brother of candidate Walter J. Sullivan. An affidavit submitted Thursday to the County District Attorney's office stated that a shut-in woman's first place vote for councillor DeGuglielmo had been changed to a first place vote for Walter J. Sullivan. The statement also said a man with an artificial right hand came to the woman's apartment and claimed to be a notary public sent by the Election Commission...