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...behind his Communist-line opponent, but neither candidate got the necessary absolute majority of 31 votes. Finally came the crucial fifth ballot when, by Italian law, the candidate with the most votes wins whether or not he has an absolute majority. Intently the tight-packed crowd listened as the clerk called out the results: blank ballots-6; Nenni Socialist Raffaello Ramat-27; La Pira...
...Mother. With this torrent of words, redhaired, leggy Helen Johnstone purged herself of the romantic dream she had nurtured three years ago when she was a clerk in the accounting department of West Coast Airlines and met a sloe-eyed Iraqi student at the College of Puget Sound. Even the reservations of Helen's father, a retired Navy commander, were not strong enough to hinder the marriage, and with the blessings of both her parents, Helen became Mrs. Abdul...
Richard Duprey, as the divinity student Lind who is dissuaded from following his deeply-felt mission in life, had all he could do to stumble through his lines. James Ruberti and Ralph Hoffmann, as the wholesaler Guldstad and law-clerk Stiver, made poor starts but improved greatly by their big scenes in the third act. Donald McAllister, who played Paster Strawman, has a serious diction problem. He must get rid of his awful accent, and can start by watching his vowels and sibilants...
...made a career out of battling the British in his native land. The son of a clerk in the Royal West African Frontier Force, Zik passed up Oxford or Cambridge to enroll in West Virginia's Storer College. Supplementing his original stake (his father's $1,200 retirement gratuity) with jobs as a coal miner, busboy and dishwasher, Zik spent nine years in the U.S., wound up with an M.A. in anthropology and government from the University of Pennsylvania...
...purchase plans, vigorous selling of stocks by investment companies. The typical stockholder is 48 (three years younger than the average stockholder in 1952) and earns $6,200 yearly (v. $7,100 in 1952) He (or she) lives in a community of about 25,000; is a housewife (34.2%), a clerk or sales employee (18%), an executive (13.7%) or a member of the professions (12.2%). Just over half (51.6%) of U.S. stockholders are women...