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Like a well-written detective novel, France's electoral system has built-in suspense. Instead of settling the contest after one election, the French heighten the drama and enchance the element of surprise by holding a runoff election one week later among the candidates who polled 5% or more of the total vote. Last weekend, in the first round, France's 28.5 million voters cast their ballots for 2,267 candidates from seven major political groupings. This weekend the survivors enter the final round that will decide the winners of France's 487 seats in the National...
...insurance is doubtless necessary, but the premiums will prove difficult to pay. The extra expense can only heighten the Government's fiscal difficulties...
Wallace's hopes of obtaining enough electoral votes to blackmail a major candidate into a "coalition government" will probably prove fruitless. If Nixon is the Republican nominee, Wallace's candidacy is most likely to result in Johnson's re-election. His racist campaign in the fall will only heighten tensions already intensified by a summer of unprecedented violence in the cities...
...abstract expressionists. "The original brush stroke was a romantic outpouring," explains Lichtenstein. "Here I'm making a simulated brush stroke, but I've removed the idea of something full of passion." He believes that painting in an era of mass media should be impersonal. To heighten this effect, he has even had some of his works executed in porcelain enamel baked on steel panels, turned out these works in editions of six to eight...
...that the United States will criminate poverty without radically changing, and that the country cannot lose the war in Vietnam if it employs its superior military power. "In a very real way," they note, "rhetoric without content breeds the politics of despair and nihilism. The slogans we use acutely heighten our sense of distance and radical alienation ... the failure of these slogans to specify any content also heightens our sense of desperateness and impotence...