Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a call on Stevenson and Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson at the executive mansion, Publisher William Evjue of the Madison Capital Times wrote an endorsement of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. And when a reporter told Stevenson that a Wisconsin poll gave him 30% of the Democratic vote without even trying, Stevenson listened in rapt attention. Momentarily dropping his faraway look, he said: "Will you please find [Administrative Secretary] Bill Blair and tell him about that? He keeps track of that sort of thing...
...Krishna Menon, whose government is unhappy about Red China's aggressive moves along India's northern frontier, put up only a pro forma fight for Peking. With a sigh of relief, the Assembly quickly adopted a U.S. resolution barring Communist Chinese membership by practically the same vote as last year...
...evident that Charles de Gaulle had France's masses behind him. In town after town, workers and farmers cheered as the general ringingly declared: "I am sure the French people have approved the determination to solve the Algerian problem by the heart, the soul and free vote of the inhabitants...
...result of the Faculty vote last spring to undertake "extensive revision in the freshman year," some 40 sections of General Education A will meet twice a week this year, Harold C. Martin, Director of General Education Ahf, announced last night. An estimated 600 Harvard and Radcliffe freshmen, selected by an arbitrary alphabetic system, are included in the experimental sections...
Martin expressed the hope that all future Gen Ed sections would meet on the new schedule. Although such a change would be "desirable," he added, it would certainly have to be determined by a Faculty vote and any final decision would rest on the success of the experimental sections this year...