Word: balloting
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...member of the U.S. delegation to the Synod of Bishops in Rome this autumn, the Archbishop of Cincinnati earned a signal honor: he was the only bishop to be elected on the first ballot to the planning council for the next Synod. Last week Joseph L. Bernardin, who at 46 is one of the nation's youngest archbishops, received an even more important accolade. In Washington, D.C., at their annual meeting, the 248 U.S. bishops present elected him the next president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the collective voice of the U.S. hierarchy...
First Vote. The U.M.W.'s policy of allowing every member to cast a secret ballot on industry-wide contracts at last brings the miners into the mainstream of progressive unionism. Until now, the final decision on major mine contracts was made at the top. Under the plan, the first vote is cast by the Bargaining Council. The schedule then calls for the agreement to be explained to 800 delegates from the local unions at a meeting in Pittsburgh late this week. The delegates will then take the 58-page agreement back to their local headquarters, where it will...
...accept the lifting of sanctions. In fact, the American delegation did arrive in Quito intending to vote yes if an unbeatable majority developed. But as the vote neared, the aloof U.S. posture clearly worked against Cuba. An abstention frustrated a two-thirds majority almost as effectively as a negative ballot. At the same time, some nervous, borderline nations interpreted the abstention as an indication that the Ford Administration really did not want the embargo lifted...
HAROLD FORD. A Tennessee state legislator and one of three brothers on the ballot in Memphis,* Ford, 29, became the first black elected to Congress from that state. He beat Kuykendall in a district that is 46% black by retaining about 16% of the white Democratic vote. Ford bluntly accused Kuykendall of being "the worst Congressman in the U.S." and repeatedly cited the incumbent's support of Nixon. Active in getting blacks to work together in the legislature, he is a strong supporter of liberal social legislation. Ford's father is a prominent Memphis undertaker and Ford...
...twin Anthony (who wrote Sleuth) grew up in Liverpool. Their father, an Orthodox Jew, was a successful real estate broker. In 1944, both sons were conscripted to work in the mines. Under the Bevin plan, depleted mines were beefed up by youngsters chosen by ballot. "It was wicked work," recalls Shaffer. Later he went to Cambridge, where he toyed with the idea of writing, and then he and Anthony teamed up to turn out three detective novels, long since out of print. Peter drifted to New York for a while but returned to England. "I couldn't write...