Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Center Summons. Rockefeller has un til March 22 to decide whether his name will be on the May 28 primary ballot. As matters now stand, Oregon will be his only opportunity for an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with Nixon in a state where he has a good chance of winning. By no coincidence whatever, many Republicans from Governor Tom McCall down are firm Rockefeller supporters. They began organizing a draft movement in January, by last week had collected more than 31,000 signatures to have their man's name placed on the ballot by petition (only...
...Rockefeller were adjusting to the new rules of play. Nixon, the sole surviving announced candidate of stature, had been cruelly deprived of an easy victim in at least three primaries: New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Nebraska. He had to find someone-or something-to run against and prove his ballot-box muscle. But Nixon's status was clear, his rhetoric free of cloying coyness, his organization smoothly functioning. For Rockefeller, the adjustment was far more complex...
...main reason. In contrast, Senator McCarthy of Minnesota, whose explicit aim in running is to attack that policy, has so far drummed up scant support. Nor does an avalanche of write-ins appear imminent for Bobby Kennedy, another critic of the war policy, who is not on the ballot and has discouraged any campaigning on his behalf...
...many Britons were deeply disturbed by the racist implications of the bill and by the first restrictions on the unchallenged right, tracing back to Magna Carta, of all British citizens to enter the home country at will. As many as 180 M.P.s either abstained or absented themselves during the ballot. Many newspapers bitterly branded the bill as a betrayal; the Sunday Times caricatured a bloated Home Secretary James Callaghan under a sign: "I'm not blacking Britain." Demonstrators marched with petitions to 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. And the Archbishop of Canterbury, among others, joined a futile mini...
...move came as a surprise to most Massachusetts politicians, who immediately began organizing a write-in campaign. Hyman had spent three months trying to persuade Johnson to allow his name to be entered on the ballot. Under a new state law the chairman of each political party is required to enter the name of the man he considers the candidate for president...