Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heels of the motion picture Oscars come the Grammys, 47 awards voted in secret ballot by the singers, conductors, musicians, composers, arrangers, engineers, songwriters, and other members of the recording fraternity who make up the seven-year-old National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences...
Although there is some question as to whether he would be included on the ballot, some unofficial sources believe that Frank Murray, a North Yard janitor, has a good chance of winning. "He could bring his wife, and chaperone, I guess," said a member of the Committee...
...contrast to Jimmy. He pointed to the fact that he had cut city taxes, streamlined city government and improved garbage pickups. He outpolled Roosevelt 392,775 to 247,313, picked up 57.9% of the vote to Jimmy's 36.5%, with the rest going to six nonentities on the ballot...
...first voters began to line up in front of the city's polling stations. A few hours later, when President Joseph Kasavubu was due to cast his ballot, observers from eleven African nations were on hand to applaud, television crews had set up their cameras, and journalists from all over the world were scurrying from precinct to precinct to record the phenomenon of an orderly Congo. The whole thing seemed almost too good to be true...
Seeking the Scapegoat. It was. For as morning became afternoon, and afternoon became evening, there was no Kasavubu-and in fact no voting. Throughout the city, not a single polling place opened its doors. At some there were no ballot boxes, at others no pencils. Almost none had received the voting sheets for all 43 contending parties. Frantic district poll officials swarmed to the headquarters of the electoral commission on the Avenue des Victimes de la Rébellion to find out what was wrong. They blanched at the scene: small boys toting huge piles of ballots dumped their loads...