Word: wolfing
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Most pundits see the outcome as a vote o confidence for the current make-up of the council, especially in light of the over-whelming first-place victory of CCA Mayor Alice K. Wolf, who received almost 2000 more no. 1 votes than any other candidate...
...Friday, the Election Commissioners began officially electing candidates to the council. Wolf and Sullivan, whose spots were guaranteed on the strength of their no. 1 votes alone, were elected to cheers from family and friends Friday evening. CCA Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 received enough of Wolf's surplus votes to reach the quota that night...
Four commission employees sat at a table with Wolf's 1833 surplus ballots in front of them, picking them up one by one and shouting the names of the second-place candidates. Other employees then placed the ballots in the appropriate piles...
Political junkies from all walks of life and from diametrically opposed ideological camps rubbed shoulders, sharing the latest numbers and trading tidbits of information on how Councillor Edward N. Cyr--running neck-and-neck with School Committee member Alfred E. Vellucci--was faring with Wolf's transfers...
However, pundits are saying that with Wolf's surplus Cyr exhausted his transfer vote potential, and that Vellucci could inch pass him on the strength of Sullivan's transfers and surplus from the candidates who will not reach quota...