Word: voting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Technically, the area under consideration may lie within the bounds of Cambridge Common, a fact that may cause groups to block the plan. A spokesman for one such group, the Cambridge Historical Society, predicted that the council might vote against the plan because "the Common has historic associations...
...Committee on Educational Policy first considered changing the minimum standard last Wednesday, and may continue its discussion at its meeting today. Any decision, however, will not be recommended to the Faculty until the Spring Term; it will then vote any change...
...Zealand's new Prime Minister is Keith J. Holyoake, 56, who will have a solid ten-vote majority in the new Parliament. The son of a farmer, Holyoake left school at twelve to help run the family farm in Riwaka. He finished his education with correspondence courses, has been in Parliament since 1932, save for one five-year break...
According to Aron, this present impasse in negotiations has only made clear the near futility of the coming referendum. On Jan. 8, the French and Algerians will vote for either independence, association with French rule, or integration into the French republic. But these issues, he said, are the same as those that brought De Gaulle to power in the first place. Thus he is now merely trying to do what the Fourth Republic couldn't do during the crisis...
Sharply attacking the idea that underdeveloped nations always take sides when voting in the United Nations, the declared "They don't vote either for us or against us. They vote in the interests of their own people...