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...suddenly the 1962 political campaigns were in full swing. With primaries in Massachusetts and conventions in New York, the nominees had been chosen in nearly all the nation's major races. Now the candidates jostled and shouted. Now challenges for TV debates fluttered through the air like autumn leaves. Now came the inevitable pictures of politicians with Indians-or factory workers, or coal miners, or bathing beauties. Now the members of Congress, grinding toward adjournment, looked fretfully toward their home fronts. And now the President of the U.S. took to the stump in his capacity as party leader...
Past the 104 white flagpoles outside the United Nations building last week rolled a fleet of limousines delivering diplomats to an autumn rite as familiar and often as shrill as the first day of school: the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Settling down to business, the delegates welcomed the U.N.'s four newest members-Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Rwanda, and Burundi-whose admission boosted Assembly membership to 108; Algeria and Uganda will be up for admittance later in the session...
Without a word the man and woman labor from dark to dark, from month to month in the long hot season to keep their fields alive. From sun to sun they sleep on a bed of rushes in a hut of reeds. In the autumn they harvest a few sacks of sweet potatoes. In the winter they rout stumps out of the hard land to increase their pitiful sum of soil. In the spring they reap the winter wheat and thresh it with a flail as old as agriculture. In the summer they climb down to the boat, row across...
...That autumn, with the U.S.-British
...been a bad season for racers at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, and the autumn rains were less than a month away...