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...suspense-filled days last week, tellers sweated beneath the gimlet gaze of party watchers to tally the results of Italy's national elections. In the deluge of 28 million ballots-representing a remarkable 93.7% of the electorate-rested a nation's choice between parliamentary democracy or chaos. The decision: democracy, in a perilously close race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Close Decision | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...sway. Well-to-do Egyptian women formed the Feminist National Party. Another group, Daughters of the Nile, led by smart and young (34) Doria Shafik, a philosophy graduate of the Sorbonne, signed up more than 1,000 upper-class Egyptian women. They prowl Cairo fixing politicians with the same gimlet stare on which Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt once impaled squirming U.S. Senators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Daughters of the Prophet | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...were General Eisenhower. I'd do exactly what General Lee would have done if he'd been General Eisenhower!"); the nubile, doe-eyed golddigger who is mock-terrified in the clinches ("But where is all this leading us to, Mr. Hartman-Miami? Palm Beach? Hollywood?"); and the gimlet-eyed old biddy who adores baseball players ("We do sell them sometimes, lady, but only to other teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful & Weird | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...side of virtue stood the committee's sharp, relentless counsel, Rudolph Halley, and the senatorial members of the committee who sat in New York. Opposed was a sullen collection of superbly tailored racketeers, gimlet-eyed gamblers, dumb cops, venal politicians and slick lawyers who looked as though they had trooped in from Hollywood's Central Casting bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Biggest Show on Earth | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...chain-smoker, Liaquat takes an occasional gimlet (gin and lime), likes to repair radios and cigarette lighters, and sometimes beats a hot drum at parties. He also likes to sing the songs of Iqbal, a great Urdu poet, accompanying himself on the harmonium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: The Glory of the Moguls | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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