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Jonathon Moore, director of the institute, said the councilmen were actively participating in all the sessions, and were responding well to both academic and non-academic speakers...
...state and local affiliates have also been successful backing school-board members, city councilmen, state legislators, governors and congressmen. California Teachers Association funds went to all but three of the 54 Democratic state assemblymen elected in 1974, and the CTA is now rated, behind the oil lobby, as the most generous campaign contributor in the state. Indiana's state association is described by politicos there as being aggressive and in the last election helped defeat Congressman Earl Landgrebe, a Republican who had consistently voted against education bills...
...seat edge over the Tories and can count on a few votes from the minor parties to enable it to continue governing, but it may lose its grip on the important committee chairmanships. The Tories, moreover, demonstrated impressive muscle in last week's balloting for town and district councilmen in England and Wales. Of the nearly 16,000 members elected, the Conservatives picked up more than 1,000 new seats; Labor gained only 15 new seats. While not too much should be read into these results-the party holding national power usually loses ground in local races-they will...
...reason the CHUL is hypothetically more important than the Freshman Council is because it can make decisions that affect every undergraduate at Harvard. Two members of the Freshman Council are selected each year by their fellow councilmen to serve on the CHUL. Besides the freshmen members, the committee includes 13 "upperclass" representatives and a variety of administrative deans and faculty members. It is one of the few places where students can become acquainted with some of the administrators and professors who really do run Harvard. That is another reason why the CHUL can be considered to be a big-time...
...baroque council chamber of Turin's city hall-known as the Sala Rossa (Red Room) because of its lavish crimson brocade-Councilman Diego Novelli last week presided over an unusual ceremony. Because he amassed a higher vote total than Turin's 79 other councilmen in recent municipal elections, Novelli won the privilege of supervising the selection of a new mayor from among them for Italy's second largest (after Milan) industrial city. The outcome was preordained. When all 80 votes had been tallied, Novelli, the nervous, chain-smoking Turin editor of the Communist newspaper L'Unita...