Word: balloters
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After the motion to retain the name Student Council was rejected, the Council decided to give the choice to the student body. On the referendum ballot, voters will be asked to select one of the two names before voting yes or no on the constitution itself. As a result, it will only take a simple majority vote to change the name, but a two thirds plurality will still be needed on the constitution as a whole...
...quiet and orderly as Ireland's, which last week returned Prime Minister Sean Lemass and his Fianna Fail Party to power with diminished strength. Nor will all the elections or campaigns be democratic. Yet even amid political repression, even where issues are listlessly debated or dimly understood,. the ballot box serves as the great political symbol of freedom, and its use-or misuse-anywhere in the world is among the West's most urgent concerns. A calendar of current and impending elections...
...precise imitation of Parks's performance, O Cruzeiro sent one of its own cameramen, Henri Ballot, to New York. There on Manhattan's Lower East Side, "five minutes by car from Wall Street," Ballot found exactly what he was sent to find: a New York family living in the same poverty and filth that LIFE'S camera had shown in the Rio slum. Photographer Ballot sighted in on the family of Felix Gonzales, 53, a Puerto Rican immigrant and part-time car washer...
...Cruzeiro's account of slum life "in the shadow of the Chase Manhattan and First National City Bank'' was every bit as graphic as the LIFE study of Rio. Ballot's picture of eight Gonzaleses crowded into a single slum-house bedroom had much the same impact as Parks's shot of the Rio favelados crowded into theirs. Fact was that Ballot's most moving picture-Gonzales' frail nine-year-old son Ely-Samuel asleep on a dirty mattress and apparently crawling with cockroaches-was posed. The photographer caught and distributed the roaches...
Played big in O Cruzeiro ("Story of the Misery in the Favelas of New York"), Ballot's photographic essay ran for 14 pages, with an accompanying text that sustained a note of righteous indignation. "In his article for LIFE," wrote O Cruzeiro's editors, "Gordon Parks chose one of the cases of most acute misery in our favelas ... As if misery were exclusively ours. It is not." Despite its set-up pictures for which it paid the Gonzales family to pose, O Cruzeiro had made its point...