Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premier after the retirement of ailing Liberal Democratic Party Leader Hayato Ikeda two years ago, this month's election will be his first test at the polls. He is well aware that he has a fight on his hands. In a party caucus after he dissolved the lower house, Sato warned members three times to lay off any hanky-panky and to avoid even a whisper of scandal during their campaigns. "The recent mor als problem," Sato admitted to the nation in a public statement, "has greatly impaired the people's trust in politics and political parties...
Sato's one consolation is that the op position parties are in no better shape than his own Liberal Democrats. The far-left Socialists, who held 141 seats in the lower house, still call for class warfare and complete nationalization of all Japanese industry, which hardly endears them to the country's increasingly prosperous electorate. The middle-of-the-road Democratic Socialists, who held 23 seats, are simply too vacillating to generate wide support. And the neo-Buddhist Clean Government Party, which will be running in its first general election, is too new and too limited...
Uncomfortable Majority. Most observers feel that Sato will win a majority in the 486-seat lower house, but that his "comfortable" majority of 278 seats may be whittled down toward the minimum majority of 244 seats. If that happens, he might find it necessary to call another election later in the year...
...time for the first immolations drew near, chains were made ready to hold the martyrs in the flames, and many of the 2,000 Sikhs in the temple compound began to weep. Then, with only 30 minutes left, the speaker of the lower house of Parliament strode dramatically into the compound. Himself a Sikh, Speaker Sardar Hukam Singh announced that he brought new proposals from Indira Gandhi for a settlement...
...mountains go, Antarctica's Vinson Massif* is not particularly awe-inspiring in its height. A humpbacked hunk of granite that rises to 16,860 ft., Vinson is the highest known peak on the continent, but it is still lower than ten mountains in North America. For an accomplished alpinist, the hike to the summit would seem like a Sunday stroll -if only it weren't for a couple of complications...