Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Double Ballot. Should De Gaulle die, his presidential functions would be "provisionally exercised by the President of the Senate," who currently is affable Gaston Monnerville, 66, a Negro lawyer from French Guiana and an avowed opponent of De Gaulle's regime, which he describes as "enlightened Bonapartism."* Within 35 days of the President's death, according to the constitution, new elections would have to be held to pick a successor...
...changed his mind at the last minute about accepting John Kennedy's offer to be his running mate. At the 1960 convention, Johnson was Kennedy's strongest opponent, and Lyndon had some rather unkind things to say about Jack. But after Kennedy won on the first ballot, he asked Lyndon to take the vice-presidential nomination. At first Lyndon refused to trade "a vote for a gavel." But he finally accepted. Said he to Kennedy: "I know there is only one boss. That...
Some 8,000,000 Spanish "heads of families" went to the polls last week in municipal elections to cast their ballots for a list of government-approved candidates. Voter No. 41 in Section 9, Quarter 5 of Madrid's Revised University District stepped into a Cadillac for the brief ride from El Pardo Palace to a tiny yellow schoolhouse. There, under the gaze of his own official portrait, El Caudillo greeted members of the municipal election board, who graciously waived the usual identification procedure. Franco reached into an inside pocket of his double-breasted dark grey suit, removed...
Fitzgerald also led the school-committee ballot in 1961 and was the only candidate to be elected on the first count...
With 16 per cent of the 31,829 valid votes, Councillor Sullivan led the ballot for the second time. In 1961, running for his first term, he drew 14 per cent of a slightly larger vote...