Word: optional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor's Option. With both Zik and the Sardauna against him, Awolowo, despite the most money and the best organization, trailed badly. As the ballots were counted, the Sardauna's North swung ahead of Zik, but if no one got a clear majority, it would be left to the discretion of Governor General Sir James Robertson to name the nation's first head of state...
...practice, the local-option act satisfied neither wets nor drys, and as provincial liquor laws were enacted, more and more communities abandoned it. Last week two Ontario counties, the last holdouts, opted out, and after 81 years the Canada Temperance Act was dead...
...barred from school. If one Atlantan proved in federal court that he was being deprived of equal protection under the law, the U.S. could order the city's schools reopened-or all Georgia schools closed down. This might even move the state legislature to give Atlanta local option. Atlantans ask: Why wait for disaster...
...Indonesia's population are a prosperous minority, irksome to Indonesia's nationalists and as politically aloof as ever. In the euphoric aftermath of the 1955 Bandung Conference, Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai negotiated with Indonesia a curious treaty giving the Chinese settlers the option of either citizenship; but, in fact, nearly 75% retain Red China passports. Last year President Sukarno closed down Nationalist Chinese schools and shops-to Peking's delight. But last May, Sukarno made it plain that all Chinese were eventually to be hobbled. He ordered some 80,000 rural "alien" businessmen, worth...
...predetermined salary, often prevents them from reaping the customary rewards of stardom, e.g., sharing in "residual" rights from rerun TV shows. If the actors make personal appearances, Warners pockets 90% to 100% of their earnings. The studio may cancel the contract at will; the actor has no option to cancel or renew...