Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Return of the Klan. Decentralization, moreover, did nothing for blacks. Because of a larger white turnout in the election, hard-core conservatives gained six out of 13 positions on the new central board, while blacks won only three. Previously, blacks had held two out of seven seats on the board. They have a majority of only two of the eight newly created regional boards, though they constitute a majority of the population in six of the eight districts. Also the regional boards have proved weak and ineffective...
Last week's election drew the largest turnout in the station's history, according to Perkins. Fifty-six of WHRB's 90-odd members showed...
...vote by which the American League team owners agreed to let Senator Owner Bob Short move his club to the Dallas-Fort Worth area next season. The Senators' need to move was underscored by the fact that the Cleveland game drew only 1,072 fans, the smallest turnout in the league this season...
Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 chided college students last night for not sustaining the energy--of the 1970 nationwide student strike, as he told a Law School Forum audience of 1600 that a large turnout of young voters in 1972 can bring about a turning point in American history...
Poll watchers from the Globe reported a disappointingly small turnout of new voters although exact statistics are not yet available...