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...little people weren't able to reach the levers on the voting machines. We need a stool in every voting place." But Harris, shaken by his poor finish, was more candid than most: "We did not do as well as we thought we would." Indeed, only his diehard determination and penny-pinching campaigning can keep him in the contest...
...Wallace, whose "Trust the People" billboard is plastered all over Southie, Somerville, East Boston, Everett and the North End, get his own diehard vote out to the polls in such areas...
Both sides seem desperately eager for outside help from their friends. The M.P.L.A. now admits that Cubans (an estimated 3,000, half of them combat soldiers) have joined its side. There are also some 4,000 refugees from the 1960-63 Katanga rebellion, most of them diehard opponents of Mobutu, who are fighting for the M.P.L.A. A hundred or more Algerians, Brazilians and North Vietnamese are also involved as advisers, technicians and tacticians. Moscow reportedly has dispatched 400 technicians to train Angolans to use Russian equipment, including light artillery and antiaircraft guns being disgorged daily at Luanda's Craveiro...
...Where were the hippies, the highschool kids, the experienced bleacher-sitters? Tickets had been expensive, it's true--$10 for grandstand, $15 for upper box--and fifty or a hundred bucks is a lot of money to spend on one family baseball outing. But this was the World Series; diehard fans should have been willing to pay extra, to go to the bank for money orders, to drive them downtown late at night so that the orders would be postmarked 12:01 a.m. on the first legal day of ticket-buying...
...dregs are being shown on TV. distributed to movie theaters, put on new records, and even printed in books (incidentally, these books--Monty Python's Big Red Book and Papperbok--are not abysmal but contain only a few new things, and these items are really only likely to amuse diehard admirers). It's clear now that Monty Python is not more consistently clever than any other comedians. If only Time magazine and the other media currently hyping the group would let us, the decent thing to do would be to forget that bloody turkeys like Monty Python and the Holy...