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Incomplete Returns. In Hot Springs, Ark., after being hired at $6 per person to tally the absentee vote in a bond election, three judges and three clerks unstuffed the ballot box, found only one ballot, which was voided because the voter had not paid his poll...
...feeling that Greene has written a Catholic novel that is more Catholic than Catholicism." Theologian Lynch, in short, is an existentialist. But existence does not lead him like Sartre to nausea, but, like David, to dance before the ark...
...born Jew of Dutch parentage, was a founding father of the U.S. labor movement and first president of the A.F.L. His window, at the rear of the south nave over the tomb of Woodrow Wilson, is dedicated to artisans and craftsmen. Among the eight scenes are Noah building the Ark, the building of King Solomon's temple and the building of Washington Cathedral...
...harddriving, hefty farmer ("I'd have preferred it if he'd been a bit smaller") whose own father settled in Earle, Ark. before it was even a town, Cloar has been recording the story of his part of the South almost all his life. Though neither his parents nor his sister nor his three brothers ever seemed to notice, he began drawing before he could write. During the war he painted mascots (girls) on Saipan bombers, at $50 apiece, later made a young artist's pilgrimage to South America and Europe. But one day in Venice...
...Morrilton, Ark. (pop. 6,000) the burning question is whether to keep up with a millionaire named Winthrop Rockefeller, who has fostered something rare in his' adopted state: a school district that spends money. This began in 1956, when Rockefeller launched a $2,500,000 plan "to set a pattern for other school districts to follow." He has since given Morrilton schools $100,000 a year, picked up the $800,000 tab for a model elementary school, and so roused the citizenry that they floated a $350,000 bond issue, doubled real estate assessment and boosted school taxes...