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...results showed that more than 86% of Poland's eligible voters had participated, and of those who did, 97% deferred to the top-seeded National Front candidates. The vote was less a vote of confidence in Gomulka's future than a recognition that however drafty his halfway house to independence, the past had been worse...
...princess' mother disapproved of their getting married (she thought Okubo had "bad manners"). One day last month the young couple entrained for scenic Izu Peninsula, traveled by taxi halfway up storied Amagi Mountain. When Aishinkakura was missed, her mother sent police searching for the couple; later she took to the radio to broadcast her promise to permit the marriage. But there are no radios on Amagi Mountain. After wandering in the misty forest until dusk, the lovers took clippings from their hair and fingernails and wrapped them in white paper as mementos for their families. Okubo changed into...
...amazing reversal of form from last Tuesday's win over Clarkson, the varsity hockey team stumbled to a 6-4 loss last night against a spirited St. Lawrence sextet. The Larries, showing a talented passing attack, took the lead halfway through the first period and held on gamely to win this important game...
With a second quarter shift of wind against Harvard, Princeton organized its attack in an effort to carry the ball through the hungry pool of mud left in mid-field by Friday's rain. Harvard's short passing attack slowed halfway through the second quarter after the team's spirited first quarter burst, and as the half ended, fullbacks Lanny Keyes and Chris Provensen found the Princeton line strong and very anxious to score...
...looking forward to the day when he could replace his creaking old Giovanni sets and spring the opera's boiling action loose from the Met's antiquated stage. Painter Eugene Berman, in many ways the star of the evening, brilliantly solved the problem with a second curtain halfway back on the stage which could be drawn and closed to let the scenes change at nervous speed. His solid 17th century Seville glowed with rust-brown and gold under hot blue skies, unfolded to reveal a succession of magnificent purple-and-crimson interiors...