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Round-robin voting by the independents and abstentions by the Civic Association-endorsed members prevented the election of Cambridge's new mayor at the City Council's meeting last night and ended the session in a deadlock in less that one-half hour. After five futile ballots, the council voted to adjourn until next Monday...
Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 stated yesterday that the CCA members will withhold their votes again in hopes that a deadlock among the independents will enable one of their number to win the mayoralty. Failing this, he said, they will support an independent who is acceptable to them...
...year Council term, draw lots to see which sits the first year. At a private meeting in Maza's office. Yugoslavia won the draw. Then, however, the Assembly balked at Maza's recourse to "lottery'' and insisted on more balloting. More balloting brought more deadlock, and finally Yugoslavia agreed, if elected, to resign from the Council after one year in the Philippines' favor. With that understanding, the delegates elected the Yugoslavs by a decisive 43 out of 70 votes. That done, delegates stood up for a traditional minute of silent "prayer or meditation" and then...
...into Serafina's dank little dreamworld. Like the smuggler, he drives a truck, and has a rose tattooed on his brawny chest, which reminds Serafina almost unbearably of her husband's. Hard facts as well as a new set of hard muscles break the husband's deadlock on her affections-it turns out he had been keeping a girl (Virginia Grey) on the side...
Tech's only score came when time advantage failed to break a 4-4 points-deadlock between Joe Goodman and Mike Brenner of M.I.T., in the 167 class. Goodman was in the line-up to replace Charlie Harding, out with a bruised...