Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In a mail referendum the members of the Harvard Cooperative Society have overwhelmingly endorsed a series of by-law revisions proposed by the Coop management to democratize the annual election procedures.
The annual membership meeting has been eliminated in favor of a general election by mail, thus making all members, rather than just faculty and students, eligible to vote. By a system of proportional representation students will vote for students, non-students will vote for non-students.
When Hayes was eliminated, however, the redistribution of his ballots pushed Mrs. Butler into sixth place in the School Committee standings, slightly ahead of independent John A. P. Good, who thus lost his bid for re-election to the committee.
Besides Good, one other incumbent City Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. failed to win re-election. Mahoney, also an incumbent, retained his seat by a narrow margin of some 80 votes. "Well, this one was a cliffhanger," he said.
As observers began analyzing the election returns, they seemed to agree on only one thing: the turnabout-achieved by only narrow margins in both races-reflected the popularity of individual CCA-endorsed candidates rather than any major increase in the CCA's overall voting strength. "Each [of the CCA councillors...