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...reason for his smashing victory was that the powerful Roman Catholic Church, although currently feuding with the Gomulka regime, chose not to proclaim its opposition to the Gomulka slate, allowing Catholic voters to vote as they pleased within the narrow choices offered them. Though no real opposition party is allowed, voters are permitted to pick from a slate of state-approved candidates, most of whom must be Communist. In Cracow, a Catholic candidate won more votes than Communist Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz, who was on the same list, and in Wroclaw, a Catholic got more support than Gomulka's Foreign...
...tennis team left yesterday on a trip southward for two matches and its first FITL competitions of the year Harvard will open its Eastern League slate this afternoon at Navy, and then travel to New York for a League match tomorrow against Columbia...
...accusations came at a meeting of the executive committee Tuesday to consider Alberg's proposed ten-man slate of Club delegates to the Massachusetts Council of Young Republican Clubs on April 15. The list omitted two-time delegate Howard J. Phillips '62. Phillips had been "front-runner" for chairman of the state Council and was opposed to Alberg's prospective candidacy for Chairman of the College Service Committee of the National Young Republican Federation...
...Committee needed 11 roll-call votes before rejecting by a 6-6 vote a motion to reconsider the slate, thus passing it. Salmond claimed that the delegation consisted of Alberg's "flunkies," that the members of the executive committee who voted with Alberg "owe their positions to him," and "there is no doubt in my mind" that a general meeting of the Club would elect Phillips to the delegation...
...there is factionalism," Alberg retaliated, "there are only two people in the faction. The fact that only two of the 13 executive committee members support their charge speaks for itself." Members of the committee who voted against the slate, he continued, have already lost interest in the "extreme" claims of the two dissidents...