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Scattered returns as of 2:30 a.m. this morning. * asterisk indicates incumbent. U.S. House figures indicate change in party make-up of state's delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. ALABAMA GOVERNOR 78% of the vote Wallace (D) 451,000 Martin (R) 216,000 U.S. SENATOR Sparkman (D)* (winner) Grenier...
Throw a nickel on the grass, Save a fighter pilot's asterisk...
Calling all this "an invasion of my privacy," McDaniel offered a solution: "An asterisk beside my number in the phone book with a footnote explaining that I do not want to be bothered by commercial solicitations." Example: Thoreau Henry D 1 Walden Pond...
...able to understand the relationship between the letters on the typewriter keys and their spoken names. Theoretically, simple words and short sentences were to follow. But teachers are human, and some of the children quickly learned how to drive them mad. One young boy, drunk with power, hit the asterisk key on his machine 75 times before the ill-starred teacher, who had been repeating "asterisk, asterisk, asterisk," finally cried uncle...
...written history of U.S. presidential campaigns is speckled with many a remarkable asterisk, not the least of which does homage to women. There is, for example, a bosomy young New Yorker named Victoria Claflin Woodhull, who ran for the presidency in 1872 as the Equal Rights Party candidate. Victoria billed herself as a Wall Street "businesswoman," publicly proclaimed her belief in spiritualism, vegetarianism, short skirts, legalized prostitution and free love. On election night she was in jail on an obscenity charge. She got very few votes. Ulysses Grant beat her out. Then there is Washington, D.C.'s Belva...