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...from the beating it took at last month's London County Council elections and other county contests (TIME, April 18). All week, on successive voting days, 7,000,000 Britons went to the polls in Britain's first district and borough elections since 1947. All week, the chant of London newsboys sounded to Laborites like the voice of doom. "Socialists lose 15 towns . . . Sweep takes Stoke-Newington . . . Birmingham captured...
...still to win Senate approval). Togliatti bawled: "You will have to reckon with the Italian people!" Fellow Traveler Nenni echoed: "The fight has just begun!" Government supporters triumphantly sang the national anthem-"Brothers of Italy ... of Italy awakened." Marxists responded with Garibaldi's defiant old war chant-"Foreigners, get out of Italy...
...sentry tower above the historic Pa (native Maori fortress) near Auckland, New Zealand, a single Maori warrior stood waiting. When the government car rounded a bend in the road, he called the traditional chant of welcome and challenge. A tall, bronzed man stepped from the car and picked up the ax that the sentry tossed toward him. At this gesture (the time-honored sign to show that a visit is peaceful) hundreds of Maoris in native costume sang their ancient haka, song of welcome...
...Newport, and It's DeLovely on the high seas,. His songs have felt the influence of his wanderings. What Is This Thing Called Love? was suggested by a native dance in Morocco's Marrakech, and he developed the music of Begin the Beguine from a war-dance chant he heard in Kalabahi, a small island in the Netherlands Indies (he had already got the title idea from a Martinique cafe in Paris...
...group of Spanish Jews met in a small, neat, new synagogue. On the walls hung the white and blue banner of Israel; the traditional nine candles stood against a background of gold-embroidered drapery. When the candles were lighted, old men in black skull caps joyfully started to chant the ancient Hanukkah hymn. The younger ones barely remembered the words. Once more, the Jews of Spain, who used to be the world's richest and proudest, had an open, permanent place of worship. A bent old man sighed: "Now I can die. Now I'll have a funeral...