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...next morning NFWA supporters gathered in Filipino Hall to await the results of the election. Chavez came to the front of the hall early in the afternoon and announced that by unofficial count the NFWA had won. Among the fieldworkers, the voters had gone almost two to one for the NFWA. In the shed, the NFWA made a surprisingly strong showing by capturing one-third of the ballots. Of the 1100 votes cast, only 19 were for "no union...
...only be misrepresented by summary or excerpting. Let it be note that the "lowlands" seem to be the opposite of "pot's "highlands," and that the song seems already to have acquired some reputation psychedelic roadmap. No doubt they that will know will know. Here below, we can only await the next installment of Time Magazine's running gloss on pop music drug allusions...
Diamond Jim Brady went there regularly, accompanied by 27 Japanese houseboys and Lillian Russell. One day William K. Vanderbilt strolled into the casino to await some delayed dinner companions, dropped $130,000 in a few minutes. Another day John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates lost $500,000 on the races, then proceeded to win back most of it by playing faro until dawn. In the afternoons, Victor Herbert conducted concerts on the porch of an elegant hotel;-in the evenings, Caruso and John McCormack sang outdoors. Such was the summer scene at the turn of the century at Saratoga Springs...
...Chicago under its first atomic alert. He blew all the air raid sirens late one night because he got a kick out of the White Sox clinching a pennant. And anyone who can talk his way out of sending people into the streets in their shorts to await doomsday can talk his way out of anything...
Plans for a building to house Hirshhorn's art must await congressional action, but there is little chance that Congress will turn down such a princely gesture. Most likely spot will be an area adjacent to the National Gallery. Lady Bird is known to be specially taken with the idea of an outdoor sculpture garden that would extend across the three-block width of the Mall, be available to millions of tourists...