Word: election
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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October 23: The move to elect an opposition slate to the Coop Board of Directors failed when too few people showed up at the general election meeting. Because only 950 Coop members--500 short of the required quorum--came to the meeting, the stock holder-nominated slate of Direc...from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies." The House had already approved the bill...
...lucrative job as a television newscaster, seemed to support Yorty's stand while interviewing the two candidates on TV just before the runoff. His questioning of Bradley was harsh; to the mayor, Reddin was uncommonly sweet. Yorty, meanwhile, was twanging the only string left to him. "To elect Tom Bradley," he said at one point, "would be an invitation to violence in this city." Burt Lancaster campaigned for Bradley; Yorty called the actor a "militant extremist." John Wayne hailed the mayor as the man needed in these "dangerous times." Ignoring the fact that Bradley drew support from such respectable...
...letter says, "Will you advise me as promptly as possible, by telephone or letter, whether you would prefer our committee to establish the facts on the basis of the relevant evidence submitted to it on May 27, 1969, or would prefer to elect (for purposes of the inquiry by the Committee of Five) to accept the findings of fact of the panel of the Committee of Fifteen...
Colburn ran one of the fastest half-miles in his career to finish third in the event Saturday. His 1:48.7 Clocking was his fastest since his freshman year, when he set a University record of 1:48.0 in the British National Championships. The captain-elect for next season was sidelined most of last year with a ruptured Achilles tendon, and his times this year had been in the low 1:50's before Saturday's race...
...which have absorbed much of the liberal arts curriculum, might well concentrate more on the moral center of man rather than his peripheral reactions to assorted social stimuli. Even the armed forces are under pressure to change in order to accommodate the new career notions. Enlisted men may never elect their officers, as some rebels propose, but they are quite likely to enjoy expanded rights and a larger measure of legal protection...