Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest fad, shared by TIME Cover Artist Robert Vickrey, who painted her husband against a background of black and white squares, with an X in each white square to symbolize the ballot, Jack Javits' favorite art form...
...HERO cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world," /V observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, who thought even in 1850 that America's world had turned unheroic. Thomas Carlyle felt that "Ballot-boxes and Electoral suffrages" might prove a fatal threat to heroes. Americans today find heroism daily in Viet Nam and high courage in a thousand situations, from space to civil rights. And yet there is a widespread feeling that the leap of imagination that makes heroes and the generosity of spirit that acknowledges them are disappearing. Can there be real heroes in a time of the computer...
...Regular Mississippi Democrats, headed by old-line segregationist and four-term Senator James Eastland, 61, overwhelmingly defeated a challenge by the Freedom Democratic Party, whose membership is almost 100% Negro. Though the F.D.P. received only 12% of the primary ballot, the election nonetheless marked the first time since Reconstruction that Negroes voted in significant numbers in Mississippi. Also for the first time, Eastland will face substantial opposition in the general election. Representative Prentiss Walker, a leader of the newly vitalized state G.O.P., has made no bid for the Negro vote; yet many Negroes may vote for him, if only...
Sargent Kennedy '28, Secretary to the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, said in an interview earlier this week that everyone who explained his reason for wanting a duplicate ballot got one promptly. Those who mailed in an unauthorized ballot were sent letters asking whether they had misplaced their official ballot and needed another one, Kennedy explained. Powers, who voted on one of his own ballots, said he never got such a letter...
Marvin himself mailed cards to members of his class on which he said they could request duplicate ballots from Kennedy's office. Kennedy's office, however, did not recognize them, and mailed out letters asking those who had used the cards to state their reason for wanting another ballot...