Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elections can be held. If the Viet Cong, in those elections, gain honestly a voice in government, so be it. But prior to elections, this Government will not be a party to any settlement which amounts to a pre-election victory for Communists that cannot be won at the ballot...
...failures Shriver acknowledged were mostly of a local nature. He admitted that the high-minded notion of electing the poor to local community-action boards had laid a costly egg. In Los Angeles recently, fewer than 1% of those eligible voted, bringing the cost per ballot cast to $22.94. Shriver also conceded that programs in some cities had been delayed because of failure to reach agreement with local officials or plain bad judgement. In Harlem, the OEO spent $40,000 to enable Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones to stage what Shriver described-mildly-as "vile racist plays in vile gutter language...
...been radically altered by the "reservations" added by Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. Still, some thought it would be better to have this treaty than none. Wilson, however, wanted all or nothing, and he instructed the Democratic Senators to vote against it; obediently, they did so. On the first ballot, the treaty was defeated not because the Republicans voted against it-only 13 out of 49 did-but because the Democrats opposed...
...Trejos, a 49-year-old university professor who edged out Daniel Oduber, 44, the candidate of the ruling National Liberation Party, by a mere 4,200 votes. For Costa Rica, which has no army, the election was only one more in a long chain of peaceful choices at the ballot box; only twice in this century has a Costa Rican President taken power by force. Backed by a coalition of small parties led by three former Presidents, Trejos drew first blood when he charged the Oduber crowd with "growing socialism," then uneasily held still as his backers spread hints that...
...only rationale for this archaic rule is that new alumni do not know the members of earlier classes who appear on the ballots. But then it is hardly likely that the younger alumni will get to know their elders any better in the five years after commencement than they did before--that a member of the Class of '66 will know the Class of '40 any better any better in 1971 than now. The passage of time will only dim his memory, cloud his recollection of passing acquaintances and faces, so that the name of his classmate down the hall...