Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week's election, Francoise predicted that she would get no votes in her competition with three other candidates. She was wrong. Essayist-Art Critic Roger Caillois, 57, won the secret vote on the second ballot with 16 votes, but Parturier salvaged a minor moral victory. She received one vote...
Byrd, who has made a career of doing favors for his colleagues in the number-three leadership job, out-counted Kennedy in a showdown decided 31 to 24 by secret ballot in the caucus held just before the 32nd Congress convened...
Each panel will meet and vote whether to make further selections by lot, ballot, or another method. Then they will proceed by the chosen method to pick zero, one or two of their num-ber (up to five for the freshmen) to participate in a larger lottery in which the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life will pick four names at random-except that if any freshmen or Cliffies have been sent to the larger lottery there must be one of each among the four. These four will serve...
...KENNEDY: "I joked with [President John F. Kennedy] that we had cast the deciding ballot in his election to the presidency over that son-of-a-bitch Richard Nixon. I explained that by waiting to release the U-2 Pilot [Francis] Gary Powers until after the American election, we kept Nixon from being able to claim that he could deal with the Russians; our ploy made a difference of at least half a million votes...
Under the new procedure, each House would create an 11-member committee to decide how its CRR nominees are to be chosen- by ballot, lot, appointment, or any other means. The 11 people in each House would be chosen by lot, and all sophomores and juniors would be eligible. A similar body of 15 freshmen would be chosen...