Word: balloters
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...plans for the future are equally sound. Favoring constitutional reform, Volpe supports Referendum #5 on the November 3 ballot, a measure which would streamline the executive by stripping the Governor's Council of statutory powers. The Council, which now passes on all gubernatorial appointments, is a hurdle to firm executive leadership, and its ratifying function invites unethical pressures, both political and financial. Volpe also supports coterminous 4-year terms for the Governor and his agency heads. All these measures would limit opportunities for corruption by increasing the power of the Governor, who would be directly and solely...
...entertaining spectator sport. Their real interest is engaged not by candidates but by a law, the blandly titled Rumford Fairhousing Act. The Act, passed narrowly last year by the legislature, outlaws racial discrimination in public housing and large private apartments. Opponents of the measure have placed on the ballot an initiative constitutional amendment." Proposition 14 which would not only nullify the Rumford Act and other equal housing ordinances, but would also forbid the legislature to pass such laws again. The State Supreme Court, one of the nation's most liberal, claims that the initiative raises "grave constitutional questions," but refuses...
...farm labor: "Mexicans are really good at that. They are built low to the ground, you see, so it is easier for them to stoop [Oct. 16]." As a Californian of Mexican descent, I wish to assure Candidate Murphy that I am just tall enough to reach that old ballot...
...editors of TIME began the week with well-laid plans for a cover story on the winner of the British election. While covering both sides right down to the ballot box, the London Bureau weighed in 48 hours before the polls opened with a firm judgment that Labor's Harold Wilson would win. In New York, the WORLD staff was inclined to agree, but with knowledge born of experience remained flexible and ready for a narrow victory by either side. It turned out to be a week when flexibility, always the journalist's best stance amid breaking news...
After the celebration of Holy Communion, the 180 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church last week closed the doors of St. Louis' Christ Church Cathedral for a solemn secret ballot to elect one of their number as Presiding Bishop. They took less than an hour to make the choice: the ;Rt. Rev. John Elbridge Hines, 54, fourth bishop of the Diocese of Texas, with headquarters in Houston. Mines succeeds Bishop Arthur Lichtenberger, 64, now so wasted by Parkinson's disease that his farewell address, a stirring summons to renewal, had to be read...