Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate seemingly needed td" win was the Gaullists' magic slogan on the ballot: "For the Fifth Republic." In Marseille, U.N.R. Candidate Yves Le Tac, a stranger to the area, who had survived two assassination attempts by the SAO in France, went into hiding throughout the campaign for fear of SAO retaliation. In the end, he led all candidates, including a millionaire shipowner who is one of the region's few popular capitalists. Independent Deputy Edouard Frédéric-Dupont, who has presided over his Paris district so long that he is called the "Archbishop...
...Paris, it took but a single ballot to elect Novelist-Journalist Joseph Kessel, 64, to the rarefied ranks of the Académic Française A byliner for Paris' France-Soir and author of the international bestseller The Lion, grey-maned Kessel is the first reporter ever to win a seat in the Academic. His election drew indignant grumbles from a fellow academician. Legion of Honor Commander Henry Bordeaux, who wrote the Academic protesting the entry of "this Kessel, who has lived such a dissolute life...
...have turned grand juries into judges as well as accusers. The leader of the fight for the amendment, which the Los Angeles Times called "intolerable to free men," was whiskery Actor Walter (The Real McCoys) Brennan. who rounded up nearly a million signatures to get the plan on the ballot...
...Bull. As always, similar claims could be made around the country on many issues. But not in Birmingham. There the voters had long debated ways of replacing the three-man commission (including one man designated as mayor), which both made the laws and administered them. The proposal on the ballot was to scrap the commission in favor of a nine-member council and a separate mayor. When both the Birmingham News and Post-Herald backed the reform, Mayor Arthur J. Hanes not only quit talking to newsmen but threatened to turn them out of the city hall pressroom. Said...
Peabody's proposals for constitutional reform will have to pass both the 1963 and 1965 legislatures and then be placed on the ballot in 1966, but the crucial first steps are the responsibility of the Governor-elect. It may indeed, be "time for Peabody for Governor," but final judgement awaits proof of Peabody's ability to effect his ambitious and needed legislative program...