Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faced Student Council members made freshmen troop to the ballot box twice yesterday in order to elect their eight man Smoker Committee...
...Acción Democrática, the majority party which was booted from power and outlawed by the junta four years ago. Carnevali had kissed off the election as a hopeless farce. He had advised A.D. men to go to the polls, as the law requires, but cast blank ballots. But gradually, through A.D.-de-coded government telegrams, he deduced that the junta would rely for victory on pre-election bribes and threats, and would actually allow a secret ballot...
Nearly a month after the election, the Republicans and Democrats alike were still shaking off the dust of the campaign, picking up new bearings and keeping an eye on the ballot boxes. Items...
Last week the opposition parties were seized with a sudden confidence that if the ballot were truly secret, as the government promised, they had a chance. Leftish U.R.D. called for a rally, and the crowd that came was the biggest in Caracas' history. The party's highly nationalistic platform, directed against foreign oil interests, demanded higher taxes on oil, nationalization of the sales of gasoline, and the construction of refineries in the country...
...Choreography in "Strike While It's Hot" is quite good, especially the barroom scene at the end of the first act and the Indian ballot in the second act. The production's scenery, however, was tiring. Only when a hotel frame was moved before the broad expanse of exaggerated desert did the main set lose its flat character. In contrast, design of the barroom set combined with the lighting in that scene sat off the ballot well...