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Soldiers on the Hustings. Aware that the phrase "Algerian-type election" has long been a byword for fraud, the Gaullists are making every effort to assure an honest count, have sent hundreds of volunteer election commissioners from France to administer the balloting. For the first time, De Gaulle has allowed Moslems and Frenchmen to vote on a single list, opened the voting to Moslem women...
...inability to face reality. Prudential consideration in the seeking of one's life partner, such as the desirability of similar backgrounds, interests and ideals, seems to these teenagers a mere censorious haggling of killjoy elders and the unromantic benighted drudges of society. The typical teen-ager's byword today is: 'If I love him, that's all that matters...
...Russia's satellites. Prague has more cars on its streets than any other satellite capital. Its shop windows are aglitter with goods, its services and amenities rival a city of the West. Yet it is a grey city, devoid of progress and hope. "Caution" is the national byword...
...Joey (Columbia), a musical that has enjoyed two major runs on Broadway (1940-41, 1952-53), was once modestly characterized by John O'Hara, who wrote the playscript, in a phrase that has become a Broadway byword. Said O'Hara: "It ain't Blossom Time" It sure ain't, but it is a dandy piece of entertainment−the sad, hilarious story of how a kept man lost his meal ticket. It has some of the spunkiest and most graceful music Richard Rogers ever wrote, some wackily witty, leering lyrics ("The way to my heart...
...Technician. For millions of Americans, Gromyko's televised image became a symbol of the cold war, a scowling, blue-serge embodiment of Soviet intransigence. As Russia's first U.N. representative, his nyet, uttered in the course of 26 Soviet vetoes, was a byword, and his precedent of walking out of a debate that embarrassed the Soviet Union became known as "pulling a Gromyko...