Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Folk Performers Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie and some performers from Hair. There, it appeared that Police Chief Jerry Wilson's crowd estimate of 250,000 might be low. A solid, bundled carpet of humanity covered the cold, hard ground. Even at Wilson's figure, it was the biggest turnout of its kind that Washington had ever seen, exceeding even the 1963 civil rights rally, which took place on a pleasant August...
Whispering Campaign. Despite terrorist threats and pleas from Jordan radio to boycott the election, 10,000 of the 34,000 eligible Arab residents of East Jerusalem, the Jordanian sector of the city until 1967, showed up to vote in municipal elections. The Arab turnout helped return moderate Mayor Teddy Kollek to office for a second term. Kollek was thought to be in trouble because of an effective whispering campaign, sponsored by hard-lining Jewish religious leaders, that he was soft on the Arabs. But the shirt-sleeved mayor was supported by an estimated two-thirds of the Arabs who voted...
Observers of the count were puzzled by the large drop in Crane's vote. Although none would say for sure, they suggested a variety of causes-including Crane's strong anti-rent-control stand, a less active campaign, and the low voter turnout-for the drop...
Aside from Crane's fall in the standings, the biggest surprise in the elections was the low turnout; there were only about 25,000 votes cast on Tuesday, down for some 31,000 in 1967. Splinter candidates running on rent-control platforms generally did poorly, indicating that the bitter battle over the issue failed to draw many new voters to the polls...
...steady rain and the prospect of little change in Boston's dreary political weather reduced voters' turnout yesterday as less than 100,000 citizens overwhelmingly placed Louise Day Hicks and John J. Kerrigan at the top of Boston's city council and school committee races respectively...