Word: mid-term
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...Hughes Executive Richard Danner and delivered to Rebozo in two equal installments, one in 1969 and one in 1970. Hughes intended the money to be used in Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, Rebozo said. (Banner claims that the funds were earmarked for congressional candidates in the 1970 mid-term elections.) Yet for reasons that are unclear, the money was not turned over to any campaign. Instead, Rebozo kept it stashed in a Key Biscayne safe-deposit box until last spring, when Robert Maheu, the deposed head of Hughes' Nevada gambling empire, mentioned the contribution's existence...
...different from the usual system for picking a Vice President. In contrast to the traditional "ticket-balancing," in which presidential nominees try to curry favor with voting blocs by selecting a Northern Catholic agriculture expert or a Border-state Baptist with labor-union support, an incumbent President naming a mid-term successor need concern himself only with the views of 535 voters: the members of the House and Senate...
Moving. He has appointed his McGovernite predecessor, Jean Westwood, to the Charter Commission, which has the job of setting up a mid-term party convention in 1974. George Meany, one of Strauss's principal backers, is unhappy with United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock because he supported McGovern. But Strauss will keep Woodcock as chairman of the Commission on Delegate Selection...
Olden, herself black, said that Long planned a floor party in Barnard last October to be held from midnight to 5 a.m. the morning before mid-term examinations...
...There are many freshmen in this dorm who were taking their first mid-term exams," Olden said. "When they heard about the party, they came to us and objected, and of course we couldn...