Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edward A. Crane '35 was re-elected Mayor on the first ballot by the Cambridge City Council Monday, Crane, who also served as Mayor in '50-'51, is the first man to be elected to be chosen for consecutive terms of office since...
When Crane was elected in 1960 seven ballots were needed before he could gain a majority. Curiously enough, Councilor Vellucci broke that deadlock also, switching his vote to Crane on the seventh ballot after voting for himself six times...
Last July, when he was sparring with reporters over the upcoming Texas gubernatorial race, John Connally mused over the prospects: "I will say this: I believe that the next Governor of Texas will be a fresh face in statewide politics, a new name on a statewide ballot." The only man in the running fitting those specifications is John Connally...
...Joanie Drost (her real name) won a prize on a Buffalo TV show singing Your Cheating Heart, largely because (she says) her numerous relatives bought piles of postcards and stuffed the ballot box by mail. Four years later her family emigrated to California. She recalls: "It was a miracle. We didn't have a flat until we were sitting in a gas station in California. We had $1.62 left...
...second Union vote, though, did not show much change from the first. Support for the constitution and the old name increased both in numbers and percentages on the second ballot, but not to a great enough extent to affect the final out-come...