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Word: ballots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuesday, November 29 CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Eric Sevareid conducts "A Conversation with Senator-elect Edward Brooke" of Massachusetts, the first Negro ever elected to the U.S. Senate by popular ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 25, 1966 | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...first general election since the army toppled President Joao Goulart almost three years ago, and Brazilians took their voting seriously. There were the usual murders in various election brawls. In some remote western areas, voters traveled 19 days in order to reach the nearest ballot box. As the votes came in last week, they pointed toward a resounding sweep for the government's ARENA Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: In the ARENA | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...substitute that leaves discussion of controversial issues to the press and their resolution to the curtained conscience of the voter. Sometimes the issues attract as much attention as the candidates, but more often they are so trivial-or so confusing-that they should never have been put on the ballot at all. Last week's election had a few of both kinds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Propositions: Confusing Clutter | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...many of the issues merely cluttered up the ballot. In one of the oddest measures to appear on any ballot, the citizens of Dearborn, Mich., deliberated on whether the U.S. should pull out of Viet Nam. A majority-56.5%-gravely declared against unilateral withdrawal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Propositions: Confusing Clutter | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

Died. Henry Krajewski, 54, the Secaucus, N.J., pig farmer who wanted to be President, in 1949 formed his own Poor Man's Party and got himself on the New Jersey ballot in 1952, 1956 and 1960, campaigning with a wiggling porker under his arm and the slogan "No piggy deals in Washington," also ran for other offices in other years, never polling many votes, but once, in 1954, being credited with taking enough ballots (his vote: 35,241) away from the Democrats to help give Republican Clifford Case his first U.S. Senate victory; of a heart attack; in Secaucus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 18, 1966 | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

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