Word: succeed
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...million eligible Pakistanis 21 years old or over. On Oct. 5, in Pakistan's first nationwide elections, voters in West and East Pakistan will choose about 300 delegates to a constitutional convention. Yahya has given the delegates 120 days to write a constitution; if they do not succeed in that time, he will disband the convention and arrange for a new one to be elected. Once a constitution is approved, a government will be installed, with the convention delegates making up the National Assembly. That could come as early as 1971. Yahya is convinced that a freely elected Assembly...
...contested elections for high office, Challenger Leon Watts was defeated by General Secretary Espy, 382-100, and Mrs. Wedel outdrew Albert Cleage for president, 387-93. A former vice president of the N.C.C. and wife of Episcopal Canon Theodore O. Wedel, Mrs. Wedel will succeed Arthur S. Flemming, former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...leaders now hope to push ahead with a plan to expand the council into a wider ecumenical group embracing both conservative Protestants and Roman Catholics. Whether they can succeed is open to question. For one thing, contributions to the N.C.C. are down half a million dollars (4%) from last year. For another, conservative Protestants may be less than enthusiastic about the trends that became apparent during the Detroit meeting...
...will account such schools a success if and only if they also possess a competitive advantage over normal ones. In other words, if among their graduates are individuals who succeed better in public life as well as private, like Daniel Cohn-Bendit or like a twenty-three year old hippie drop-out reported by Life to be making millions in stock market. These men succeed through insight; they undermine the view that success is built on conformity. Education should make people happier by giving those so inclined the strength to conquer...
However, Whitlock see a reply to Greenberg's accusations. In the case of Rutgers University, where the president officially cancelled all classes, a suit might succeed, he said. But because Harvard left the decision up to the consciences of individual students and professors, it avoided taking a political stand, he added...