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...voter can choose as many candidates as he likes, listing them in preferential order (1, 2, 3, . . . etc.). The ballots are then put into piles according to which candidate received the "number one vote" on each blank. On the basis of the total voter turnout, the quota needed for election is determined (for the Council, it is one tenth of the vote plus...
...foliage. There, early last week, two companies of Bolivian Rangers totaling more than 180 men split into two columns and quietly stalked a handful of guerrillas. Shortly after noon, the troops spotted their men, and both sides opened up with their rifles and automatic weapons at a withering, point-blank range of 150 feet. After a lengthy fight, four Rangers and three guerrillas lay dead, and four other guerrillas had been captured...
...Blank . . . my love's eyes familiar as a scar...
...with camera, film and gismo supplied by guests at the session, and guarded up to the moment that the session begins. Serios has also produced images with the camera held at a distance from him, separated from him by a lead-glass screen, pointed away from him at a blank wall, and triggered by other participants in the session. He has again succeeded when the gismo was held in position by invited observers, sewn into a pocketless monkey suit, and according to Paul Welch (Life, Sept. 22, 1967), a reporter who observed Serios in Chicago for several years before...
Music on the Move. At the Quebec pavilion, for example, a series of almost blank abstractions-freestanding blocks representing water, forests, industry-is bathed in an electronic score, by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Composer Gilles Tremblay, in which lab-produced whir, twitter and roar complement the visual suggestions. High overhead the individual sound tracks collide and coalesce into a contrapuntal aural landscape...