Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on the results of the referendum, Marc E. Leland '59, president of the Council, said he was "quite pleased," both with the number of students voting and with the outcome itself. He called the turnout "a rather large vote" which, he said, "followed the great majority of the Council's feeling...
...Eisenhower Republican Charles Brownson, 44, slightly behind Democratic Theater Owner Joseph Barr, 40, who is helped by an unusually strong Marion County Democratic ticket. In the Ninth (Aurora) District, lone-wolf Republican Earl Wilson, 52, running as usual without help from the state G.O.P. organization, needs a good rural turnout to hold his seat against Bartholomew County Sheriff Earl Hogan, 38-In the Fifth (Kokomo) District, archconservative, teetotaling Republican John Beamer, 61, is fighting for his life against vigorous, teetotaling Huntington County Lawyer J. Edward Roush...
...Pacific island of New Caledonia, 52-1. In the Sahara, 70-1. Of 18 overseas territories, only French Guinea voted no. French residents in the Soviet Union plumped for De Gaulle 74-43, and in the New York voting area, 2,343 to 152. France itself, in a record turnout, jammed the polling places to roll up a majority of 79.25% for the new Gaullist constitution...
...Algeria, where the French had feared the worst, the turnout was remarkable. French army jeeps had prowled the dusty streets of F.L.N.-haunted towns with loudspeakers urging: "Men and women! You must vote for the referendum today. Do not be afraid of the fellaghas. For your better future, for the happiness of your children, vote...
...landslide that rattled the nation's teeth -much as they were rattled when the troops landed in Little Rock last September-Faubus won the primary, thus is slated to be the second man ever to spend three terms in the Arkansas Governor's chair. In a record turnout he defeated two opponents, won a historic 68% of the vote, carried every one of the 75 counties, from the rich, black Delta, heavily populated with Negroes, to the northwestern mountain counties, where Negroes make up only a tiny minority of the population...