Word: electics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet launching of a three-person spaceship emphasizes our need to re-elect Johnson, who has already worked long and hard for a better U.S. space program as a Senator and later as Vice President and President. Senator Goldwater is a man who wants to enter the space age wearing a railroad...
...controls the press, has jailed many opponents. But Ayub is really no more dictatorial than most Asian or African rulers, and more effective than many. After he seized power six years ago from a democratic but corrupt government, Ayub paternalistically promulgated the very constitution under which the general elections are being held. Among other things, Ayub's constitution allows women to run for office-something he may now regret. He developed a system of indirect elections called "Basic Democracy," under which voters are to choose 80,000 "basic democrats," or electors, who will cast their ballots next spring...
...form an East African federation with Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. He has obtained agreement in principle for a 1,268-mile railroad linking Lusaka with Dar es Salaam-but the line may not be completed until 1970 or later. After being proclaimed the new nation's President-elect, Kaunda told the crowd of his vision of a free and peaceful Zambia "where people of all tribes, races, beliefs and opinions, political and otherwise, will be able to live happily and in harmony...
...projections, odor machines and so on, the room is capable of becoming any place on earth that the children want to visit, including every sort of hanging garden and bower of bliss in the bibliography of never-never lands. The children, deprived of human love by the machine substitute, elect a sterner environment. They turn the room into a dry and baking swatch of the African veldt. In the end, they lock their parents in there, where a pride of hungry lions tears the adults to pieces...
...Coop will hold its annual membership meeting in Harvard Hall 1 to 5 p.m. today in order to elect its 19-man Board of Directors. But for the first time in the Coop's history, the results of the elections cannot be guessed in advance...