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...Iowa's Fourth District, an area of small (less than 300 acres) farms running southeast from Des Moines, the state's politics can be seen in microcosm. There, in 1956, Republican Incumbent Karl Le-Compte, 71, won his tenth term by running strong in small towns and carrying 50.7% of the vote against Farmer-Lawyer Steven Carter, 43. This year LeCompte has retired, but Democrat Carter, still trying, is making headway among farmers caught in the cost-price squeeze and in the squeezed small towns that depend on farmers. To replace LeCompte, the Republicans nominated personable John...
...overseas territories-now known as the Community, like Britain's Commonwealth-had gone to the polls not so much to vote in a new constitution as to vote out an old. What united Frenchmen as dissimilar as Hubert Beuve-Méry, neutralist publisher of Le Monde, and the royalist pretender, the Comte de Paris, Prince Napoleon and Brigitte Bardot, cloistered Carmelite nuns and a nameless million voters who had previously backed the Communists, was an intense desire to be rid of the ungoverned and ungovernable past. It was a vote against twelve years of muddle, against 25 governments...
...Crimson offense will be laboring under the disadvantage of some key Probable Starting Lineups LEHIGH HARVARD Wenzel LE Keohane Meincke LT Shaunessy Schaeffer LG Keating DeFlavis C Foster Stanley RG Anderson Beattie RT Briggs Nevil RE Hershon Scheu QB Ravenel Kovach LH Bouiris Burger RH Repsher Lauretti FB Halaby...
...First World War. The Great War. We got shipped to Liverpool in 1918, train to Southhampton, boat to Le Havre, and in we went. Not much time to think. I was at the Marne, St. Quentin, Belleau Woods, the Wheatfields...
...bottom of Buick's line, the new two-door Le Sabre will sell for $2,485 at the factory with taxes, freight, etc. added. v. $2,422 for the comparable though six inches shorter 1958 two-door Buick Special. The middle price Invicta and Electra lines will generally carry smaller increases over the discontinued 1958 Century and Super lines. The highest-price Electra 225 four-door hardtop will go for $3,895 v. $4,396 for the 1958 four-door Limited hardtop. Gone are all five 1958 models that Buick sold in the old $4,000-plus Roadmaster...