Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were, of course, disappointments. While Scranton's cause was helped by the reaffirmation of Ohio's 58-member delegation to vote for a favorite son, Governor James Rhodes, on the first ballot, Scranton's hopes for a breakthrough in the Illinois and Indiana delegations were rebuffed. Early in the week, Scranton stopped by the Capitol Hill office of Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, pointedly suggested that Ev would make a "great favorite son." But Dirksen was having no part of such a holding action. He was convinced that Goldwater had a strangle hold on the Illinois...
...last week Duvalier was holding a "popular referendum" before he assumed office for life. It was only proper, said "Papa Doc," because "we have what is called a democracy." But in the dank, dark Caribbean nation, where almost 90% of the 4,500,000 population could not read the ballot, even Lou Harris could have predicted the outcome. Eight hours before the polls closed, the little doctor-turned-dictator appeared on the balcony of the presidential palace and graciously conceded victory. "Duvalier has won the battle," he told the obedient crowd. "He is already elected. I accept no one else...
...have much of a chance, but there was a special flurry in the case of Horowitz, whose son and son-in-law were also Yale men. Five hundred alumni, including Democratic Senator Thomas G. Dodd and leading Republican John Alsop, signed the nominating petition to get him on the ballot on the general theory that "it would be a good sign" to have a Jew on the board for the first time in the corporation's history. However, in the balloting, the alumni's choice was New York Congressman Lindsay...
Since the Illinois ballot will be on paper, not machines, and since it will be long and complicated, there is every chance that a vast majority of citizens will save themselves trouble by voting straight tickets. Thus Percy spotted a chance not only to enhance his own candidacy but to end up as Governor with a genuine Republican assembly by cleansing the G.O.P. slate of West Side bloc leaders. And that is what he set out to do. "We have a special problem in Illinois that beclouds our reputation and helps keep Republicans at home," he said. "I mean...
...blue, bulletproof Cadillac pulled up to the newly constructed grade school. Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro stepped out, strode into the crowded schoolyard and took his place in line. "We are here to vote," he said simply. After a 25-minute wait, Paz dropped his pink ballot into the box, dipped a finger into a cup of red ink to prove he had voted, then drove off to attend to other affairs of state...