Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the first official count of the School Committee ballots, Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the Graduate School of Education, won re-election by a convincing margin. Shaplin was the only candidate in the first count to receive the quota of minimum votes necessary...
Died. Gianni Caproni, Count of Taliedo, 71, Italian aviation pioneer, whose first 1912 Caproni monoplane set speed, altitude and distance records; of a heart attack; in Rome. Builder (in 1914) of the first multimotored airplanes to stay aloft, Caproni converted them to bombers, prospered during World War I on the side of the Allies, later became a Fascist and provided Mussolini with planes for his Ethiopian raids...
Councilor Al Vellucci was running eighth at the last count, over 1000 votes behind the leading CCA candidate. Fifteen of the 35 candidates have been eliminated...
Four candidates endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association increased their margins in the City Council race last night. Incumbent Edward Crane '38 leads in the elimination count with 3,356 votes, just 84 votes short of the quota necessary for election under the PR system...
...picture does have its moments. Paolo Stoppa is excellent as the Count's harried servant; Chevalier can still put a peculiar lilt into a French song; and despite a washed-out process called Ferraniacolor, the Riveria remains the Riviera...