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...voting itself was quiet. The electorate took their time about going to the polls. In London, tired housewives queued patiently to do their daily shopping before going to vote. Near Manchester, where autumnal hills and fields, gowned in the Labor Party colors of red and yellow, were beginning to fade, a farm wife was asked if her husband had voted yet. "Nay, nay," she answered, "he's ower thrang [too busy] yit, he's got his coos to milk." But the voters turned out-82% of them, as compared with 51% in the last U.S. presidential election...
Colonel Dave Barrett, now a U.S. military attaché in Formosa, is an old China hand known for his plump amiability and his fluency in Mandarin. In 20 years of service in China, he saw the warlords fade, the Japs come & go, the Nationalists driven before the Communists. None of these great events startled easygoing Dave Barrett more than a shrill accusation by Radio Peking last week. Colonel Barrett, said Red China's government, is the ringleader of an "American imperialist" plot to murder Chairman Mao Tse-tung and other high Chinese comrades...
...Russia these days old soldiers seldom fade away. They just die, and the U.S.S.R. never thinks it worthwhile to name the ailments that took them off. For most, death seems to come in what the U.S. armed forces regard as hearty middle age. Since the beginning of the year, the Russian press has reported these deaths among the high brass...
...cruising timber or hunting deer in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon had come back with the same story. Near the little hamlet of Kamela, they had often heard a faraway tinkling, a ghostly bell ringing. No one was ever able to track down the strange sound. It would fade away in the sighs of the wind through the big pines. Skeptics accused the men of hearing things...
...Slow Fade. Thurber is not totally blind. At the age of six, he lost his left eye when one of his brothers accidentally shot him with an arrow. For about the next 40 years, his right eye did double duty, then it failed him; ten years ago, Thurber underwent five extremely painful operations on it for cataract and trachoma. The eye has since had one-eighth vision, not enough for a 56-year-old writer to get himself around with safety. The shins of the long, gangling (6 ft. 1½ in., 154 Ibs.) Thurber bear a mass of scars...