Word: voting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drake University student Democratic club rally, he sensed the let-out partisanship of his listeners, proceeded to wow them with a wry reference to the Nixon-Rockefeller contest: "The Republicans apparently believe that two's a crowd. They'll give us a choice of a vote for Checkers or a vote for a checkbook." But before a serious, nonpartisan service club luncheon in Des Moines, he picked a careful, solemn path. "I live by the rule that I am first a free man," he said, "then an American, a Senator of the United States, and a Democrat...
...Algerian rebels had been holding off any negotiations with France hoping to make a show of world backing in the U.N. Last year they had come within one vote of a two-thirds majority in the General Assembly, and at least one nation-Castro's Cuba-had indicated it would change its vote in Algeria's favor this year...
...final vote, the resolution failed for the second straight year to get the necessary two-thirds majority. The score: 39 yes, 22 no, 20 abstentions (including...
When the time came to vote in Nigeria's first national elections last week, the candidates were too tired and hoarse for last-minute attacks on opponents, instead led their numbed election-eve audiences in singing tribal ballads, on the plausible theory that enough was enough...
...N.C.N.C. Party. Overhead, imported skywriters drew a palm tree in the sky, symbol of Zik's free-spending opponent, Obafemi Awolowo, premier of the Western Region. Twelve busloads of ringers from Ghana were discovered just in time, and turned back at the border before they could vote. In one outlying area, four chiefs were arrested for registering 500 children under ten years old. In Lagos, pols tried to register an entire high school en masse...