Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First order of business was the election of Venezuela's Ambassador Carlos Sosa Rodríguez, 51, to the presidency of the Assembly. Approved by a vote of 99 nations (eleven abstained and Nepal arrived too late to cast a ballot), the trim, businesslike lawyer-accountant accepted the gavel from Pakistan's bearded Zafrulla Khan. Then, in Spanish (he is also fluent in French and English), Sosa Rodriguez introduced himself as "a son of the native land...
...Louise Day Hicks, chairman of the school committee, topped the ballot with 63,103 votes, followed by committeemen Thomas Eisenstadt (62,590), Joseph Lee (62,263), and William O'Connor (42,795). All three have backed Mrs. Hicks in rejecting an NAACP charge of de facto segregation in Boston schools...
...mayoralty race, even his concede that incumbent John F. Collins will draw the greatest number of votes, but by capturing the second place on the Nov. 5 ballot, they hope to follow the trail to success that Collins himself climbed in 1959. They acknowledge that they have agreed among themselves to support whoever comes in second...
...anything, generated less. Although candidates are seeking approval, the seven incumbent city councillors are considered sure to be re-elected, and the 31 other candidates--none of whom, apparently, has either the financial backing or the inclination to campaign seriously--will share the 11 other places on the November ballot...
...form management committees to run them as they were. Ben Bella, who has an almost mystical love of the peasant masses, is staking his future on this version of the collective farm. Each estate has a government-appointed director, but the committees are guaranteed the right of secret ballot and the privilege of dismissing the directors...