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...typical precinct in the 24th Ward, he reported, the voting was dominated by one man, the Democratic precinct captain. "A nod from the precinct captain allowed an unregistered voter to vote by merely signing an affidavit. Whether he might vote in another precinct as well would be impossible to determine. Even more remarkable was what happened inside the voting booth. Without asking whether any voter wanted help, the election judge entered the booth with every voter and instructed him to pull the Democratic straight-party lever, breaking the state law. If the voter tarried more than 30 seconds and thus...
...absent from the 24th plenary session; Vance flies to Washington immediately after meeting. It is later learned that Le returned to Hanoi via a Moscow meeting with Soviet Premier Kosygin...
...high, 500-lb. sculpture that epitomizes the party's high hopes for 1968. From its stainless steel stems hang 24 freeform wooden leaves. Twenty-three of them bear cameo-style carvings of past Presidents, including every Republican elected since Lincoln broke the ice in 1860. The 24th is blank, but the conventioneers, their euphoria heightened by the sun, surf and sand of Miami Beach, are confident that it will some day bear the likeness of whomever the G.O.P. happens to nominate this week...
Friday the Strike Committee proposed that arrested students refuse to talk to the deans about their actions. The college has suspended between ten and twenty students for refusing to come in. On Friday, however, they postponed indefinitely the May 24th deadline which required that 33 seniors talk to the deans...
Mooing Herd. He was not alone. As budgetary meetings of the full Cabinet approached their 24th hour, the Evening Standard reported that "the whole mooing herd of the government's once-sacred cows was driven to 10 Downing Street." The result, said the Standard, was "much slaughtering." If Wilson was stripping defense to placate the "mini-England" wing of his Labor Party, he was also tightening plenty of belts among the social services. Education Minister Patrick Gordon Walker described the sessions as "heartbreaking," and Minister of Arts Jennie Lee threatened to resign-and perhaps drag others with...