Word: optionals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Alexandria (no schools closed yet, but five involved in a pending integration suit). A 900-member, all-white Parent-Teacher Association voted a resolution calling upon the city council to break with massive resistance and push for local option on integration...
...whoop-and-holler ovation, but two days later, with the floor packed by late-arriving delegates from the state's more moderate north, a resolution to support massive resistance drew a 557-557 tie, and this was chalked up as a defeat. Then a "local option" plan for integration won a squeaky 515-513 victory. The next day, for the seventh time in three troubled weeks, Almond dodged reporters, canceled his press conference...
Instituted this year, the new installment plan gives undergraduates the option of paying their term bills monthly or in two lump sums, one at the beginning of each term...
Rather than ease the situation, this only brought new problems. The ballots had already been printed, and the Committe had the option of printing and distributing hundreds of thousands of stickers or relying on a write-in vote to nominate Gibbons in the primary. Even with a feverish effort, they could not prevent the mismarking of thousands of ballots...
Voters thus have an option with little meaning, for neither major party has nominated a worthwhile--much less inspiring--candidate. The choice of evils is a difficult and unpleasant one for any voter. That such a choice will have to be made on November 4 is a sad commentary on democracy in Massachusetts...