Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That set off the real shock waves. The 40,000-member California Real Estate Association, long opposed to "open housing" laws of any kind, swiftly launched a movement to draft a state constitutional amendment and circulate petitions, which won a place on the 1964 ballot for what is innocuously labeled "Proposition...
...Hampshire. Former State Representative John Pillsbury, 46, was nominated by Republicans to oppose Democrat John King, 47, in a rematch of the 1962 election. Supremely confident Democrats urged Republicans to write in King's name on their primary ballot since he was unopposed within his own party. King wound up third in a field of seven Republicans, trailing only Pillsbury and temperamental former Governor Wesley Powell, who announced he would now go into "forced retirement" from politics...
Echoes of Chile's presidential election will be sounding around Latin America for years-and not merely because the Communists were thrashed in their attempt to take power by democratic means. Marxism has never succeeded at the ballot box. The bigger news is the man and the party that won: Eduardo Frei and the Christian Democrats, who are rapidly emerging as a vital new force, not only in Chile but in all of Latin America...
...strong appeal for the underprivileged-and also for Latin America's deeply religious women, rich or poor. In Chile, it was the women who gave Frei his large majority. He broke about even with Marxist Salvador Allende for the men's vote; the women (who use separate ballot boxes in Chile) gave him almost 63% of their vote. Frei's own sister Irene, 46, was one of the country's most popular political figures until her death in an auto accident five weeks ago. In Santiago municipal elections last year, she herself won an alderman...
...this seemed "like a slap in the face" to Staff Sergeant James R. Mabry, 27, who entered the Air Force from Wisconsin. Like most non-Texan servicemen in Texas, Mabry did not vote by absentee ballot in his home state. Moreover, he has been stationed in Bexar County (San Antonio) since 1959, owns a home there on which he pays taxes like any other resident. Yet last January, when he and his wife paid poll taxes, Mabry's receipt (unlike his wife's) was stamped "not eligible to vote." Precisely the same thing happened to his friend...