Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as the signatures on the petition are certified, Lenzner's name will be added to the ballot. On April 15, ballots will be mailed to the 130,000 Harvard alumni. The six nominees receiving the highest number of votes will become Overseers...
...shot down Aurelio's trial balloon by repeating Lindsay's own reiterated line that he means to stay a Republican and plans only to finish out his term as mayor. The New York Daily News, no Lindsay admirer, jumped aboard with a "Lindsay Switch or Fight" mail ballot, asking readers whether Lindsay should become a Democrat and whether he should run for President. The News promises to publish the first results this week...
...Gandhi reminds voters to look for the New Congress Party's symbol on the ballot. Since perhaps 70% of the voters are illiterate, all parties use symbols (see above), and some ballots bear a score or more. Given the importance of the sacred cow in Hinduism, the New Congress symbol could hardly be more effective-a cow and a calf...
...minds of people through violence, the movement hopes to radicalize the population through organization and political education. In Berkeley, for example, radicals are putting up a slate for mayor and city councilmen in the spring elections. Members of this "April Coalition" have already succeeded in placing on the ballot a measure that would decentralize police powers and give them over to neighborhoods within the community. Another, even more old-fashioned radical activity is organizing workers. Coming to terms with this necessity has caused a good deal of pain among many young radicals since, as one of them puts it, "workers...
...such issues as the war and racism have had little impact on Washington. Neither party, in their view, has the fortitude to meet head-on the country's serious issues. A recent Harris poll indicated that an extraordinary 26% either would refuse to vote or would not cast their ballot for candidates of the established parties...