Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vellucci, Daniel J. Hayes Jr., and Bernard Goldberg -- caucused for about twenty minutes before the Council's inauguration ceremony began. They could not agree on a unanimous choice, and according to one report, discussed the possibility of a "round robin": a different independent would receive four votes on each ballot...
...endorse Mitterrand. Jean Monnet, architect of the Common Market, backed Mitterrand as well, because he found De Gaulle's idea of Europe the "Europe of centuries past, a rebirth of the nationalist spirit that has brought tragedy to France and Europe." Even De Gaulle's first-ballot, right-wing opponent, Lawyer Tixier-Vignancour, joined the other three eliminated candidates in opposing De Gaulle. The most important of them, pro-Europe, Catholic Centrist Jean Lecanuet, could not quite go all the way to an endorsement of Mitterrand with his Communist backing, but he advised his 3,700,000 voters...
...accustomed to thinking of himself in the third-person historic present. But neither French politics nor the once Olympian image of De Gaulle himself would ever be the same again. For last week, needing more than 50% of the votes in a field of six to win a first-ballot reelection as President of France, Charles de Gaulle lost. Though he ran first in the field, he got only 44% of the votes cast. Leftist Francois Mitterrand polled a surprising 32%. Catholic Centrist Jean Lecanuet came from nowhere to win 16%, and the three other candidates garnered a total...
Crucial Cruise. The battle to win the bank's new site was spirited. Japan expended every weapon it could forge to acquire the bank for Tokyo, Asia's crossroads of commerce. Tokyo actually led on the first ballot, but others were active too. Thailand pressed for Bangkok, which is becoming Southeast Asia's regional U.N. center. Manila boasted that its schools turn out plentiful trained personnel for banks. Bids were made by Teheran, Kuala Lumpur and Colombo. Finally, the Philippine delegation suavely stymied lobbying for rival cities with a reception for conference-goers and a lengthy dinner...
...freshmen class voted yesterday for eleven representatives to the Jubilee committee. 775 of 1200 freshmen cast their ballot...