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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election of 1958. Setting an off-year primary record, 64% of California's Republicans and 60% of the Democrats turned out. And by nightfall the big news was that California Democrats, traditionally nonpartisan types who dissipated their big margin in registration (currently 990,000) by voting for well-known Republicans in California's cross-filing primary system, this year voted the straight Democratic ticket with unity. Result: the biggest California Democratic vote in any nonpresidential primary year...
...treasurer, and lesser jobs, the Democrats had higher vote totals than incumbent Republican opponents. And 69-year-old Frank Jordan, who followed his father as secretary of state and thus made the office a Jordan holding through most of the 20th century, ran neck and neck with a little-known Los Angeles Democrat named Henry Lopez, who had not even cross-filed in the Republican primary...
FRANCE The Providential Man Out of the kaleidoscopic confusion of events in France emerged two arresting facts. In his first seven days in power Charles de Gaulle had managed to give his country firmer government than it had known in the preceding seven years. And in the process the stiff old soldier from Colombey-les-Deux Eglises had displayed precisely the two qualities his critics insisted that he lacked-a talent for conciliation and a mastery of political maneuver worthy of a Talleyrand or a Tammany sachem...
...coalition Cabinet against the objection of more NATO-minded ministers. The Soviet ambassador, who has signed agreements with Comrade Josepsson to buy about a third of Iceland's catch, was quick to proclaim Russian support of the new twelve-mile decree. The British Admiralty accordingly let it be known that four new frigates might shortly be added to the arctic fishing protection squadron...
...section is confined too closely to a text for its readings. The English class, however, gives conscientious students a workout which matches that of lower level Harvard Humanities course. In 1955-56, one third of the year was spent on drama and the work centered around a theme once known to freshmen here as "Ideas of Good and Evil in Western Literature." During the winter, poetry, essays, and a series of about seven novels were read, including such works as The Brothers Karamazov, Buddenbrooks, and The Last Puritan. Two papers of about 3000 words length, involving a sizable amount...