Word: janning
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Having cast ballots for President and Vice President, the state's electors sign and certify their tally and send it, sealed, to the President of the U.S. Senate. There, on Jan. 6, in the presence of both the House and the Senate, the nation's electoral vote is ritualistically counted in what must rank as the greatest anticlimax in American politics...
...year-old President Nyerere. "It is foolish to wear clothes that show legs," he declared last week. "It would be better for people to go unclothed if their intention is to expose their legs." The Youth League has also called for a ban, as of Jan. 1, on everything symbolizing the "cultural enslavement of the African." Besides miniskirts, the ban includes wigs, tight pants for men or women, and chemicals used to bleach skins and "dehumanize the African people." Hair-straightening devices, lipsticks and other cosmetics have already been condemned. Beauty contests, the "exploitation of female flesh," are taboo. Green...
Born in Smyrna on Jan. 20, 1906, the son of Socrates, a well-to-do tobacco dealer, he witnessed as a youth the savage Turkish invasion of 1922, during which an uncle was lynched in the town square. His family fled to mainland Greece. At 17, Aristotle embarked for Argentina with $60 in his pocket, to seek his fortune...
...heart of their effort is an IBM-supervised mock election sampling the presidential choices (including Senator Eugene McCarthy) of 4,000 presumably representative Hollanders. Says Hendrik Jan Diekerhof, 58, a retired Dutch army chaplain who runs Aktie: "The actual voting electorate in the U.S. is no more than 1½% of the world population. That 1½% decides for us in matters of war and peace, racial relations and the fight against poverty. The U.S. President meddles in our affairs. We should meddle...
Once lightly regarded as being merely the boss's son, Bob Sarnoff is now speaking with the master's voice. RCA's president for the past three years and its chief executive officer since last Jan. 1, he has made the company's marketing operations more efficient, reshuffled its management hierarchy and trimmed production and inventories to help combat eroding profit margins. His efforts have paid off. Last year RCA showed profits of $147.5 million on sales of $3 billion. Both figures are running higher...