Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston public school teachers voted late last night in a secret ballot to accept a new contract offer from the Boston School Committee, averting a threatened strike by thz 5500 teachers today...
Henry Robinson, president of the Boston Teacher's Union, had recommended that the teachers reject the contract offer and predicted after a voice vote and show of hands earlier yesterday that the secret ballot vote would call for a strike...
...final vote tally in the secret ballot was 1708 to accept the contract and 1353 to reject...
...third ballot, at 4:30-after a traditional Roman siesta-Luciani burst to the fore, falling just short of a majority. "At that point," Luciani explained later with a smile, "it began to get dangerous for me." Cardinals Willebrands of The Netherlands and Ribeiro of Portugal, sitting on either side of him, leaned toward him. Whispered one: "Courage. If the Lord gives a burden, he also gives the strength to carry it." Whispered the other: "The whole world prays for the new Pope...
...ultraconservatives who favored Siri, a fact that encouraged fence sitters to swing to Luciani. So the fourth and final vote was fast-and was speeded further by the Cardinals' decision to dispense with the ritual declarations that were required during the earlier sessions as each man deposited his ballot in the chalice. As the count went on, no other name but Luciani's was read out. There were a number of blank ballots cast by Curialist and conservative bitter-enders. But roughly 90 votes went to Luciani, and Vatican Radio described his election as "virtually by acclamation." When...