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...huge, marble Nazi-built East Prussia Hall in West Berlin, it was clear that Christian Democratic ranks were solid. Even Liibke's rival. Socialist Candidate Carlo Schmid, 62, hoped Lubke would be elected on the first ballot to save everybody time and effort. Delegates in the humid hall wandered out to the lobby for sausages, beer and soft drinks as the clerk droned alphabetically through the list. Liibke made it on the second ballot...
...junior high school gymnasium. Around him, jamming available folding chairs and pressed back against the peeling green walls of the gym, were arrayed more than a thousand sweltering Louisianians-many of them leathery farmers in shirtsleeves, who had arrived before dawn (and had been sustained through the humid hours by soft drinks sold by the ladies of the P.T.A. for the benefit of the junior high encyclopedia fund). At precisely 10:40 a.m. there was a rustle at the rear of the gym and a voice rasped: "Push 'em back! Push 'em back!" Behind a wedge of deputies...
Prize Catch. Like maharajahs eager for a tiger hunt, the big dealers and collectors came flocking to the humid, glass-roofed main salesroom of London's famed Sotheby's (pronounced Sutherbees) auction house. Prize catch of the lot was clearly Peter Paul Rubens' Adoration of the Magi. A 10 ft. 9¼ in. by 8 ft. panel painted by Rubens at the peak of his powers in 1634 for Louvain's Convent of the Dames Blanches, it is considered by dealers not only the best Rubens in Britain but the most important old master...
...second plan was more radical: to move Pakistan's capital from hot, humid, and filthy Karachi to a cool, high (elevation: 5,264 ft.) valley surrounded by a crescent of hills on the Potwar plateau some 700 miles to the north. Uncomfortably sitting on the steaming Arabian Sea with only parched desert behind it, Karachi since 1947 has mushroomed in population from 350,000 to an overcrowded 2,000,000. Government offices are spotted awkwardly in rented space across the sprawling city; water supply is at best uncertain over 60 miles of sand; and in the ill-favored climate...
Back home in Indonesia, while he was away, the Constituent Assembly refused to play mouse. In long, hot, humid sessions, some 65 orators monotonously followed one another to the rostrum to orate. Privately, many of them pressed Premier Djuanda for firm promises of future employment if they voted in Sukarno's constitution. Djuanda was at first evasive, finally lost his temper and shouted that "unpredictable things may happen"-a thinly disguised threat of a military takeover if the assembly did not get a move on. Angrily, the assemblymen three times refused to pass Sukarno's plan, and then...