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...narrow vote of 62-58, Gizenga's slate of seven candidates swept every office in the Chamber of Representatives; in the Senate, Gizenga supporters won five of the seven elective posts. The Congo's normally inert President Joseph Kasavubu was sufficiently stung by this rebuff to crossly remind the legislators that, as chief of state, it was his responsibility to name a Premier-designate-a strong hint that his first choice would not be Gizenga...
AmSeCo set up years ago one of industry's first testing and research labs that now helps it keep its edge over competition. In the AmSeCo torture chamber, a swivel chair gets 200,000 swivels before it is pronounced serviceable, fabrics are doused with artificial perspiration, and all upholstered chairs must withstand Squirming Irma-a wooden model of a human buttocks that wriggles lifelike in the seat. Out of the lab come new products, some of which take the company beyond the glutens maximus. Items...
...been a great year for "Gone With the Wind," and for thousands of free-lance magazine writers, newspapermen, Chamber of Commerce publicists, and Southern apologists who have contributed their bits to the avalanche of copy celebrating the Civil War Centennial...
...sort, was being fought last week by two countries who were sort of friends the day before hostilities. Tunisia and France, joined in the dubious nostalgia of ex-colony and motherland, were firing at each other on Tunisian soil and exchanging bitter charges in the august echo chamber of the United Nations Security Council...
Along comes David-cynical, selfish, divorced and avidly on the lookout "for a special sort of experience; a kind of imagination of the flesh." Mary runs off with him, although she senses that she is leaving for a "gas chamber." Emotionally speaking, she is right, for David compulsively attempts to destroy her. Trying to understand himself, he inwardly sizes up his kind: "We are the tinkers, who move on; who invite experience but flee from consequences . . . We are the most dangerous of all: the permanently immature...