Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even this was partly an accident; the Security Council resolution to intervene passed only because the Russians, boycotting the sessions, were not on hand to cast their veto in the crucial ballot...
After the first ballot, Alberg held a 20-19 lead over Phillips. But a midwesterner, James Harff of Northwester, was ahead of them both with 27 votes. Neither the second nor third ballots produced any change, and no candidate had the necessary majority...
...discovered who ran the county machine: Marlin Hawkins, 47, a paunchy, cigar-chomping native son, who is a per sonal friend of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and has been Conway County sheriff since 1950. Another Wirges discovery: after every county election, special election deputies, appointed by Hawkins, carried the ballot boxes to the courthouse (a common practice in Arkansas...
...small turnout (400,000 or less) would enable his organization support to pull him through. But even if Wagner is defeated in the primary, he will still be the nominee of the Liberal Party and of the brand-new, labor-backed Brotherhood Party, and will appear on the November ballot. So, too, will both Republican Lefkowitz and Independent Gerosa. Thus, there is a distinct possibility that between September and November the same four candidates will still be at it-which should make the campaign even woise than it was before...
...covered by pink curtains gathered 18 members of the cathedral's Great Chapter, led by Dean Walter Matthews. With appropriate portentousness, the dean questioned the assemblage: Should the election be "by acclamation, by scrutiny or by compromise"? It was decided that it should be "by scrutiny," i.e., secret ballot. And that was odd, as Tweedledum might say, because the Bishop of Peterborough, Robert W. Stopford, had already been chosen by the Queen to be Bishop of London. If the assembled prelates in St. Paul's dared vote against him, they would be subject to imprisonment, loss of civil...