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...voter lists the candidates in a preferential order (1.2.3...etc.)--this ranking is the crux of the whole system. A voter may list as many candidates as he wishes as long as there is a clear preferential order. The ballots are then distributed into piles according to those who have received the "number one vote" on each blank...
Abruptly, midway through construction, came a threat that the whole project might well turn out like the Emperor's new clothes. In an unprecedented action, Architect Yoshimura resigned. "Palace authorities have persistently ignored my conscience as an artist," he charged. The crux of the matter, it developed, was the old bugaboo of public projects-cost. Yoshimura's idea of simplicity, claimed Ryoichi Takao, head of the Palace Construction Bureau, included too many costly details. Yoshimura, for instance, wanted the expansion joints connecting the buildings covered, and planned to use 45-ft.-long, exposed cypress beams for the ceiling...
...Crux. Despite such isolated backers as Menzies, President Johnson decided that he could not ignore all the criticism. Accepting a longstanding invitation to speak at Johns Hopkins University, the President appeared before students and faculty in Baltimore. He described the Vietnamese war as one of "unparalleled brutality," where "simple farmers are the targets of assassination and kidnaping. Women and children are strangled in the night because their men are loyal to the government. And helpless villages are ravaged by sneak attacks . . . terror strikes in the heart of cities...
...crux of their arguments for change comes down to the fact that the Soviet economy has grown too complex and sophisticated to be efficiently manipulated by pushbutton from Moscow. The economic reformers are not out to undermine Communism but to improve its efficiency. Nonetheless, the solutions they have proposed are distinctly Western: the use of profits on invested capital as the single best indicator of factory performance, flexible prices responding to the market forces of supply and demand-and, of all things, charging interest on the use of government money by shops and factories...
Actually, Percy (Harry H. Corbett) seems entirely believable as a Lancashire bloke of almost invincible rectitude. For 39 years he has been a virgin, and that is the crux of this lacklusty comedy adapted from a London and Broadway play. The boob and the bawd (Diane Cilento, the gamekeeper's daughter of Tom Jones) meet, maunder, tell one another pathetic little lies, and slowly uncover their loneliness...