Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRANK D. WEBB Wheaton, Ill...
...told his men how to vote? he was asked. No, he replied, why should he? He himself had voted for Civilian Huong. On the outskirts of the Delta city of Can Tho, Farmer Ly Van Tarn found the procedures all too honest for his liking. "My wife is ill and cannot come," he explained, "so I brought her voting card, her identity papers and a family picture to prove I am her husband. But still they would not let me vote for her." It cost Thieu an extra vote, he added, because "Thieu and Ky have shown they can work...
Occasional irregularities there surely were, just as the U.S. has its West Virginia presidential primaries and predictable voting patterns in Cook County, Ill. But among the Vietnamese, the overwhelming feeling about their own election last week was that it was as honest as they have ever known, more honest than anyone expected. That feeling promises much for the future of Viet Nam-and for the new mandate of President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu...
...Ill lay: Pope Paul VI, 69, with a cold, intestinal cramps, nausea and intermittent fever that brought him back from his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo and caused him to cancel all appointments; Nellie Connolly, 47, wife of Texas' Democratic Governor, recuperating in Houston's M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute after removal of a benign, olive-size growth on her jaw; General Earle G. Wheeler, 59, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recovering at Walter Reed Hospital from a "minor" heart attack that was disclosed by the Pentagon after two days of denials that...
...electrician and plumber, who have long outpaced him in pay. The U.S. taxpayer is sick of soaring school costs. The conflict between these viewpoints has created one of the most strife-ridden school openings in years. This week nearly 2,000,000 schoolchildren from Baltimore to East St. Louis, Ill., face the possibility of extended summer vacations because of teacher contract disputes...