Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the smoke cleared from last year's long ballot counting, Francis H. Duehay '55, had just managed to eke out a seat on the Cambridge City Council. The small margin--just a few more than 90 votes--came as a surprise to an incumbent and one-time leader in Cambridge School Committee voting...
...Crane's role in the history books of Cambridge--he doesn't mind going down as a boss. "In school we were always told that a leader is an old-time boss with a college education," he says. "Anyway," he laughs, "my name was on the ballot every two years for 30 years and if they didn't want me they could have always gotten...
...that if registration requirements were slackened to allow students to vote in Cambridge, the floodgates would open and thousands upon thousands of students would rush through and seize control of the Cambridge government. It would be only a matter of time before they stormed the Bastille through the ballot...
...recently attempted assassinations of President Ford have again made gun control a major political issue. This is especially true here in Massachusetts where a bitter controversy surrounds a well-organized petition drive to place a measure banning handguns on the ballot...
...need almost 60,000 signatures by Nov. 25. If they are successful, the legislature will then have until May, 1976 to approve the proposal. If the legislature does not approve, the petition's supporters would need to gather an additional 9000 signatures to put the measure on the November ballot...