Word: es
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Left and Right. Grass travels in a green-and-white Volkswagen bus decorated with a Social Democratic rooster crowing "Es-Pe-De." He usually heads for an area in which the SPD either won narrowly or, in losing, drew at least 20% of the vote. Bundestag seats are figured on winning local votes and also on the basis of party percentage of the total vote; Grass's aim is to increase the Socialist national percentage and thereby secure more seats for the party...
Five of the reservation's neediest families were chosen at random for the hous es. Once selected, however, the families had to be talked into accepting the new homes. One reason for their reluctance was that the relatively luxurious housing is bound to cause jealousy and antagonism on the part of the other 45 families. Besides, without electricity and with a constant firewood shortage, the dwellings will be impossible to heat...
Mann and Taylor discovered the existence of this quirk by spending a sum mer month questioning people waiting in lines at sporting events or movie hous es. With uncanny precision, the research ers found, the mood of the queuers changed at the mysterious but universally recognizable dividing point. Ahead of it, people estimated the length of the line and their chances of success quite accurately; often they would over estimate the number of people ahead of them as a pessimistic cushion against being disappointed. But just behind the point, people consistently underestimated the size of the crowd ahead of them...
Transported to China, Hathaway watch es rice farmers Maothing revolutionary rubrics, has an interview with the chair man - a benign, ping-pong playing chap - and cons his way to the secret for mula. All the while, beeping and honk ing, he is being tracked like a satellite, his pulse rate and adrenal flow monitored back in England by a one-eyed, three-star general (Arthur Hill...
When the beeps broadcast trouble, the general decides to fire his ultimate weapon - Hathaway. Will Hathaway blow his mind, or will he reach the Rus sian border before the Red Guard clos es in? The grim countdown begins...