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...also helped by the fact that no sizable states'-rights third-party move has developed so far in the South. In past campaigns, Southerners mad at their party voted the third ticket, e.g., in 1948 when the Dixiecrats took 39 Southern electoral votes from Harry Truman (see map). This time, protest votes will likely go Republican...
...days when it was still the Noblemen's Club. Pushkin and Tolstoy relaxed there, later the bodies of Lenin and Stalin lay there in state. But Powers seemed unmindful of history, and the faraway cities of which he talked were apparently little more than dots on the map to him. A man who by his testimony belonged to no political party and had never voted. Powers was simply an expert airplane chauffeur describing his trade. "I don't know." he said when asked about the workings of the U2's phenomenal electronic brain. "I just turned...
...branch office where Communists and their collaborators check in. Recent visitors to Havana range from Mexican Artist-Communist David Alfaro Siqueiros (see Mexico) to a couple of Costa Rican banana-union bosses who stopped in en route home from Moscow. The effect of this spreads all over the map. In Managua, Nicaragua, students rioted, burned the U.S. military attache's car, demanded that Roosevelt Avenue be renamed after Augusto Sandino, Yankee-hating Nicaraguan rebel of the '20s. In Ecuador, students and white-collar workers formed a Revolutionary Union of Ecuadorian Youth and donned Sierra Maestra-type khaki uniforms...
Professor of English and Director of the Poetry Workshop at Tufts University. Holmes is also president of the New England Poetry Club. His most recent book, Writing Poetry was published in June. His other books include Address to the Living Map of My Country, The Double Root and several shorter collections. Holmes has also published in Poetry Harper's Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Nation Kenyon Review, and other periodicals...
...flight to Stanleyville suddenly heard on his radio the voice of the "commander of the Fifth Bicycle Battalion" warning sternly, "Do not violate my air space again or I'll shoot you down!" But in the 47 regional centers where they had been scattered by whirlwind airlifts (see map), the U.N.'s 11,000 troops had no trouble at all keeping the peace...