Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Downplaying the impact of the landslide first-ballot victory which John R. Lakian, a Westwood businessman, scored at Saturday's non-binding convention. Sears and Card emphasized the importance of the official primary. Lakian received the support of 790 of the 1450 delegates last weekend and Card received 105. Sears did not allow his name to be place in nomination and received no votes...
...Boston Globe survey earlier this week indicated that Lakian holds a two-to-one lead over Robinson in the delegate count, and a Lakian aide said last night they had already "gone over the top" and would win a first-ballot victory...
...Robinson has refuted the survey and said last night it is still a "horserace" Predicting that no candidate will win a first-ballot victory. Robinson aides say thay they will take it on the second or third tally...
During the halftime break in Sunday afternoon's Ivy League women's basketball championship game, each coach polled her players and then submitted a team ballot for the All-Ivy tam and the tourney MVP. Dartmouth center Gail Koziara (25.3 points per game and 14.3 rebounds per game on the weekend) walked away with the MVP laurels. Her 26-point. 20-rebound performance in Sunday's final led the Green to its third consecutive Ivy title. Selections to the All-Ivy squad included: Dartmouth's Ann Deacon (21.3 ppg). Yale's Margy Hutchinson (14.7 ppg) and Regina Sullivan...
...final speaker, historian William Leuchtenberg, "brought the whole thing to a head. Woefully he warned that Americans are losing faith in their democracy." But the radicals throughout the crowd cheered and called out things like 'It's about time.' Leuchtenberg said: 'Our hope lies in the ballot box.' "BULLSHIT' cried the radicals...