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...Finnish Cabinet. Without mentioning Russia, political advertisements boldly warned that a vote for the Communists was a vote for "dictatorship." Newspapers and broadcasters loudly urged "sofa loungers" to get out and vote, since a light turnout would only aid the efficiently mobilized Communist Party. The Reds fought hard: in northernmost Lapland, the Communists cornered almost all the local taxis to shuttle their supporters to the polls...
...Shah finally got his country back in 1946 and boldly sent troops into Azerbaijan, Iran's northernmost province, to throw out a puppet regime the Soviets had left behind. Three years later, he came within a hair's breadth of death at the hands of a leftist fanatic who opened fire with a pistol as the Shah was handing out diplomas at Teheran University. Three shots drilled the Shah's hat, another creased his lip and right cheek and, as he dived to the ground, a fifth hit him in the left shoulder. Bodyguards riddled the would...
...campus newspaper) "spent more time in the clouds than in the classroom." Last week there was no such complaint as President Patty, 65, announced his own retirement in favor of William Ransom Wood, 53, academic vice president of the University of Nevada. All things considered, the nation's northernmost campus (100 miles south of the Arctic Circle) has never been in better shape...
...tentative heralding of distant spring was a welcome break in the routine at Grandview Hills No. 1, the northernmost oil-drilling operation in Canada's history. Only the day before, a dropped wrench, crystallized by the -42° cold, shattered like an icicle when it hit the derrick floor...
...village of Kilauea. on the northernmost Hawaiian island of Kauai. the workmen from the sugar plantation began to drift in to vote about midmorning. Tony Castro, 53, a naturalized Filipino-American, had been up since dawn, when he started the day by opening the mountain gates for the morning's irrigation. As he edged through the throng toward the paint-flaked schoolhouse, he was besieged by election workers who begged a vote for their candidates. Castro shook his head wordlessly. Behind him, wearing dirt-streaked khaki pants, sweat-stained shirt and heavy shoes, Louie Pacheco, 44, operator...