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Quite Enough. The main effect of the bill will be to enfranchise some 3,000,-000 Negroes, mostly Southern. It is impossible to reckon how many will avail themselves of the right. But almost certainly, enough of them will register and vote to change the complexion of Southern politics...
...still refer to as Modern American, with TV commercials, and a computer for election night. Gorbach demonstrated clear campaign superiority by 1) hiring a helicopter in order to shake hands over a 10,000-mile circuit, and 2) using Polaroid lensmen to snap him with individual voters. To no avail. Austrians prefer their own way of making a President, and Jonas won with 2,324,474 votes, or 50.69% of the total...
...senate. It was in the Governor's office and at Gracie mansion [Wagner's official residence]." Buffalo Democrat Frank Glinski roared: "Hitler burned down the Reichstag because he couldn't get majorities! Somebody may put a match to this place soon, too." All to no avail: with all 25 Republican senators joining 15 Democrats, the senate elected Zaretzki, 40 to 18. Zaretzki was as surprised as anyone by the sudden turn. Quipped he: "I'm glad somebody finally realizes the great job I was doing as minority leader here for eight years...
...film's bitter finale, Signoret hopelessly pounds the pavement on a rainy night in Rome, bragging, jeered at, and aged so noticeably that one motorist splashes right by her to pick up a greener jade. The scene is played to perfection but to no avail. Made in 1960, Love is both dubbed (Italian for French) and flubbed. Director Antonio Pietrangeli squanders several major talents on a saccharine social tract in which the line between solving problems and pandering to them remains handily blurred...
...developing nations have frequently asked the United Nations to make avail lable low-interest loans for developmental purposes. Sohn feels the proposal would therefore meet with their approval...