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...were youths in bell-bottoms voting for the first time, and newlyweds who married in the morning and voted in the afternoon. A 110-year-old woman was carried by her great-grandson. Women frequently outnumbered the men, and some bore babies in their arms. Others appeared in their finest saris and jewelry. Sweetmeat vendors did a brisk business. When a cow gave birth to a calf outside a polling booth, everyone hailed it as a good omen. Officials of the New Congress Party, whose symbol is a cow nursing a calf, immediately ordered a shed erected...
...Beam Distilling Co. as a spur to liquor sales, boosted sales all right, but not just by drinkers. The bottles turned out to be every bit as intoxicating, so much so that a company called Grenadier is now in business primarily to serve "the Connoisseur Collector with the finest examples of porcelain soldier figurines [bottles] available anywhere in the U.S." Moreover, unlike their contents, the bottles have a long-term value: Jim Beam's hapless gambler, clad only in top hat and barrel, sold in 1958 for $8 filled; today, empty, it commands at least...
...counterrevolutionary sexual politician," Mailer restores the chronology, plus several passages Millett has lacerated with ellipses and paraphrase. Then, he brings to the analysis such delicacy and compassion for Lawrence that the section often moves along with the surge of a hymn, and may perhaps be among the finest pieces of Lawrence criticism to date...
Atwood, however, has a history of surprising favorites. His mild personality on the court often puts him in the shadow of his opponent during pre-game warm-ups. But Atwood has one of the finest repertoire of shots in collegiate squash. In two intercollegiate tournaments, Atwood has upset the number one seed...
Mather students attempted to extinguish the fire, but soon agreed to call in Cambridge's finest to finish off the Smokey-the-Bear performance...