Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ballot boxes will be in all Radcliffe dormitories and dining halls today and Wednesday. Voting will end at 8 p.m. Wednesday, and the results are expected to be available later in the evening...
...particularly opportune time for Kennedy to begin looking like a ballot-box strong man. Humphrey's campaign has been steadily picking up momentum. A Congressional Quarterly survey of Democratic Senators and Representatives showed Humphrey favored as the party's "strongest" candidate by a margin of 4 to 1 over Kennedy, 11 to 1 over McCarthy. On the eve of last week's voting, Humphrey bested Kennedy in Louis Harris poll pairings against both Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller...
...Thus Kennedy will probably get 55 of Indiana's 63 convention votes on the first ballot; this must still be made official by the state party organization. On subsequent ballots, if any, delegates will be legally uncommitted-and probably pro-Humphrey...
...former Deputy Ambassador to South Viet Nam, ran a poor fifth in the ten-man Democratic race. With the support of both labor and the Latin and Negro minorities, Don Yarborough, 42, a liberal Houston lawyer* who was twice defeated in the gubernatorial primary by Connally, topped the Democratic ballot. But without a majority, he was forced into a runoff on June 1 with Lieutenant Governor Preston Smith, 56. An archconservative, Smith will probably gain the right-wing votes that were shared with other candidates in the first tally, and thus must now be counted a slight favorite. The runoff...
...Shooter. Nixon, as behooves the man out in front, reserved his ammunition for the Democrats. In a rather leisurely two-day stint in Nebraska, where in this week's primary he faced opposition from Ronald Reagan (who was on the ballot) and Rockefeller (who was not). Nixon aimed a P-Shooter at Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey: "three peas in a pod, prisoners of the policies of the past." And in a 6,000-word formal statement, he attacked the Johnson Administration for failing to reverse the rising crime rate. Nixon proposed a broad program aimed...