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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the system,* statewide primaries are decided not by popular vote but by the number of unit votes for each candidate. The 121 least populous of Georgia's 159 counties cast two unit votes, the next 30 have four votes and the eight most populous counties have six votes. The candidate who wins a county's popular vote plurality also wins all its unit votes; the candidate with the most unit votes wins the primary. Under such a system a candidate can trail in popular votes and be elected. In 1946, for instance, red-gallusty Gene Talmadge lost...
...totals, compared with constituent assembly elections last July, told the story. Last week leftist Radical Frondizi pulled approximately 4,000,000 ballots with Perón's backing. His top opponent, moderate Radical Ricardo Balbin, got 2,500,000. Last July, when Perón's disciples cast more than 2,000,000 blank protest ballots, Balbin beat Frondizi...
Ponchielli: La Gioconda (Anita Cerquetti, Franca Sacchi, Mario del Monaco, Cesare Siepi, Giulietta Simionato, Ettore Bastianini; conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni; London, 3 LPs). A first-rate cast gives a racy reading to Amilcare Ponchielli's old campaigner from Venice, proves that there is a lot more to it than its pop-concert Dance of the Hours. Mellow-voiced Soprano Cerquetti gives a superb performance as "the joyous female" of the title role who loses her blind mother and her lover before she plunges a dagger in her heart. Tenor del Monaco sings so gustily that he conceals the fact...
Must a Unitarian be a Christian? The question has bubbled through Unitarianism for years (temperatures reached new highs last May when the monthly Christian Register changed its name to the Unitarian Register). Last week another vote for the negative was cast when the temporary pastor of Washington's influential All Souls Church used his Sunday sermon to bow out of Christianity...
...shrug off television. "TV is for the older folks." says he. "A teen-ager who has a date doesn't want to stay at home." Rhoden waves off major Hollywood productions ("Gary Grant won't sell teen-agers"), even throws out westerns unless they have a young cast. Result: his 1957 gross increased 18% over 1956; this year's is still growing...