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Havana displayed all the trappings of free election. Lampposts and palm trees blossomed with posters and pictures; fist-shaking candidates appealed nightly over TV; Cuban radios boomed their promises. The government announced that 72% of the island republic's 2,870,678 eligible voters had picked up their voting permits. And around the country the polls were provided with enclosed booths where the voter could even split his ticket, deposit it in a sealed ballot...
...find it with a Brazilian diplomat named José Ybarra-Jaeger, but a scandal of which Holly is innocent breaks over her blonde head and Ybarra-Jaeger checks out. In that heartbroken moment she is defenseless and touching. " 'But oh gee, golly goddamn,' she said, jamming a fist into her mouth like a bawling baby, I did love...
Foreign Scandal. Within the past year came the recession and layoffs. As the last hired, Negroes were the first fired. In Nottingham, a textile city of 312,000, where Negroes constitute less than 1% of the population, they make up 20% of the unemployed. Fist fights between whites and Negroes have become a common Saturday night feature in Nottingham's slum district around St. Ann's Well Road, an area noted for petty crime, poverty and prostitution. Last month a gang of white Teddy boys jumped a West Indian laborer and beat him with fists and clubs...
Cooper's fist clinched around his ultimate weapon: a battered copy of the Southern Manifesto. Gore's refusal to join 19 other Dixie Senators in this 1956 blast against civil rights made him a "traitor to the South," charged Cooper, who swore that his first official act would be to sign it.* Cheered by Orval Faubus' landslide just across the Mississippi, Cooper's rednecks promised to prove that only stout segregationists can now win primaries below the Mason-Dixon. But at vote-counting time in the as-good-as-elected Democratic primary late last week, Albert...
...Sent to school in Cairo, he shook his fist at R.A.F. planes flying overhead and shouted: "0 Almighty, may disaster overtake the British!" Two years later the constitution that the British had granted Egypt in 1922 was suspended, and Egypt was governed by decree...