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...biggest free election. The voters range from maharajahs to harijans (untouchables), speak 845 different languages and dialects, come from seven different racial strains, including fair-skinned Punjabis in the north and ebony-colored Tamils in the south. Some 75% of them are illiterate; they will mark their ballots with government-issue rubber stamps. Democracy is still a new experience for them, and many think that the ballot box is a place of worship to be daubed with vermilion paste and flower petals...
...Unlike the U.S. federal judiciary, Japanese judges do not receive lifetime appointments, but are subject to periodic review. Lower-court judges, appointed by the Cabinet, must be reappointed every ten years. But justices of the Supreme Court, each ten years, appear unopposed on the general election ballot and must receive a majority of the national vote to remain on the bench...
From the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal, from tropical Madras to the freezing Himalayas, election fever was rising last week in India. Government printing presses rolled around the clock turning out ballots for 210 million eligible voters (all citizens over 21). About 125 million of them-more than the populations of England, France, Canada and Australia-are expected to go to the polls this month in the biggest free election in the world. Voting in most states will last a week beginning Feb. 18; returns from six snowbound constituencies in the north will not be in until April...
...first time in 49 years, the name of Sam Rayburn was missing from the ballot in Texas' Fourth Congressional District. The cotton-and-cattle-country Fourth was Mister Sam's undisputed personal fief; the Texas legislature kept it the sixth smallest in the U.S. (its population is 213,374; by comparison, a neighboring district contains 951,527 Texans) to make fence-tending easy for the aging Speaker, who died last November at 79. Six candidates, including a lone Republican, campaigned to succeed him in a special election. Nobody polled a majority, so the two who led the field...
...responsibilities. Then, as a choir chanted the Te Deum, Abbot Boultwood formally accepted the fealty of 37 monks from St. Anselm's Abbey, the capital's only Benedictine monastery. American-born and British-educated, Father Boultwood, 50, was chosen by the monks (in a secret ballot) last November to be their first abbot, shortly after Pope John XXIII elevated the 37-year-old community from the status of a priory...