Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McFall was the inevitable fall guy on the first ballot: Burton 106, Boiling 81, Wright 77, McFall 31. With McFall gone under the low-man-out rule, there was speculation that if Burton and Wright beat out Boiling on the second ballot, Burton would win the runoff -since Boiling's supporters would not throw their ballots to the conservative Texan. If Burton and Boiling were the survivors, Boiling would win, since Wright's backers would not vote for the liberal Californian. There were rumors that on the second ballot some of Burton's supporters threw their votes...
...Austrian-born Kurt Waldheim, who was elected Secretary-General in 1971, wanted a second five-year term, and last week he got it. Unflappable Waldheim, 57, has earned respect from big and small powers for his quietly energetic diplomacy. He received a 14-to-0 endorsement on the second ballot in the Security Council, and was re-elected by acclamation in the General Assembly. How does Waldheim view his job? As one of moral suasion, he says. "Like the Pope, I have no divisions...
...narrow plurality to begin the process of nominating student members for the CRR. Although there was a plurality of 23 votes (out of a total of 600) in favor of sending freshmen representatives to the CRR, more than 100 of the freshmen checked a box on the ballot saying they didn't know what should be done, thereby denying the anti-boycott voters a clear majority...
...voting came on the same ballot with the freshmen elections for representatives to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, and the Committee on Undergraduate Education...
...help to establish a presidential precedent. Carter intends to go on calling himself Jimmy, not James Earl Jr. It was Jimmy Carter who signed bills, and vetoed some, as Governor of Georgia. It was Jimmy who slogged through 30 primaries. And it was Jimmy whose name was on the ballot in all 50 states on Nov. 2, even though he had to sue the state of Maine to keep it that way. Jimmy it will remain-and that use of the diminutive will mark a historic first. Harry was Truman's given name, not a nickname; "Woody" would have...