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...older than I." After dawn-to-dusk days in search of real estate, Wilson spent evenings in search of lighted tennis courts so he and his aides could squeeze in a set or two before bedtime. One 18-hour stretch of land hunting ended at the Tenis Clube Do Para in Belém, Brazil, where Anderson found himself whacking back Wilson's forehand drives at 10 o'clock at night...
...JOHN M. PARA Binghamton...
Typically, one out of three American voters fails to cast his ballot on Election Day. Those who stayed home out of laziness or apathy could learn a lesson from Alaska's voters. Ballots are para chuted into remote villages weeks before the election. Then, provided wind currents do not carry the voting kits across the Bering Strait into Soviet territory or the caribou migrations have not lured voters away from their precincts, the hard part begins. Eskimos in the bush view their ballot as important, and paddle boats and mush dogsleds many miles to reach the polls. Results...
Homosexuals, as Gore Vidal has noted, are one of the last minorities in the nation about whom it is still safe to make public jokes. That may not last much longer. Increasingly, homosexuals are creating their own public para-institutions, including churches (see RELIGION). And with the proliferation of such radical groups as the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance, they are taking to the streets...
Tsoucalas says that the coup was made possible because the Army had become a parallel state. This was especially true during World War II when the British officially tolerated and condoned the para-military activities of right-wing extremist groups (General Grivas' "X" organization, for example) which put down the National Liberation Front (EAM), the Communist-dominated coalition against the Germans. While these right-wing groups, many of them former collaborationists, carried out British policy, Churchill set up a parliament under George Papandreou. Tsoucalas argues that this "double structure of power, democratic in the political facade but Royalist-fascist...