Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Macmillan noted that the issue will al most certainly come to a U.N. vote this year-and when it does, Britain will cast an aye ballot...
...names on the ballot included those of a woman who was under the impression that Harry Truman was still President, a man who wanted to use the Texas shrimp fleet to invade Cuba, and Bing Crosby's father-in-law. Of the six serious candidates, at least two offered as their main credential their wholehearted support of Democrat John F. Kennedy. But when the voting ended last week for the U.S. Senate seat vacated this year by Lyndon Johnson, the result was a repudiation of the New Frontier. The top two, who will soon be matched in a runoff...
Unanimity collapsed, however, when Phillips backers moved that voting at the general meeting be by secret ballot. This was rejected 7-6. The Alberg forces scored another victory, by passing a motion 6-5, which excluded all members enrolled after 9:30 last night from voting at the general meeting...
Even the most obvious dark horses had fallen by the wayside in the marathon balloting, when the name of Jacob Meyer, the popular mayor of Minneapolis, emerged out of nowhere: a Jew! Dare we nominate a Jew? Can a Jew be elected? The 40th ballot began. Suddenly. Jacob Meyer received an urgent note asking for an immediate private meeting with the leaders of the American Jewish Human Relations Council. (Three other Jewish organizations were waiting in three other rooms with three different views to express, but he didn't know.) The head of the organization said: "Jacob, we urge...
When an actor accidentally belted him one. Brando happily reorganized his story to work the incident in. And the end of the picture is not the end Brando had in mind: the actors, in a democratic ballot, voted for one they liked better. Production was still further slowed by Brando's perfectionism. With a cast and crew on full salary, he sat for hours beside the Pacific Ocean and waited for the waves "to become more dramatic." For a drunk scene, he chugalugged a pint of vodka, got sincerely stoned and reportedly lost his supper - but kept the footage...