Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if he gets no farther than he is already, McCarthy may well control enough delegates after the convention's first ballot to tip the balance in a close race between Kennedy and Humphrey. Which way might he go? McCarthy isn't saying, but the suspicion, shared by Kennedy's strategists, is that he would favor his fellow Minnesotan, Hubert Humphrey...
...march on poverty. Let us march on ballot boxes, march on ballot boxes until race baiters disappear from the political arena, until the Wallaces of our nation trem ble away in silence. My people, my people, listen! The battle is in our hands...
...strong contenders (TIME, Feb. 16), but he quickly drew ahead of the field. After waging a tireless cross-country campaign, he came to last week's Liberal Party convention in Ottawa as a front runner. At week's end Trudeau was elected party leader on the fourth ballot by a vote of 1,203 to 954 over the nearer of his two main opponents. Thus he will formally succeed Pearson as Prime Minister some time later this month...
...citing the "basically appointive" nature of a county board of education, approved its selection by delegates elected from districts of unequal population; the other upheld a plan that gave each of seven unequal districts a resident city councilman but required that they be elected by a citywide ballot...
Presidential choices listed on the ballot range form George C. Wallace to Fred Halstead, the Socialist Worker candidate." "There has been a lot of thunder on both the left and the right," Harris said, "but this will be the first time that students have been able to speak with a single voice...