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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clean Sweep. More than half a million' others, 60% of the electorate, also voted. Their ballots gave a clean sweep to the firmly anti-Communist Sangkum (Socialist People's Community) Party, organized only six months ago by popular, chubby 32-year-old ex-King Norodom Sihanouk. The neutralist Democratic Party, which controlled the last National Assembly before its dissolution in 1952, polled a mere 18% of the votes. The Communists got almost none except in their stronghold of Kampot, shared with other minor parties only some 12%. Sangkum candidates won all 91 seats in the new Assembly...
...News, "and you are very unlikely to go broke, die of overeating or overdrinking, make enemies unnecessarily or make a fool of yourself." The New York Post turned the subject over to its prize pundit, Max Lerner. In a six-article series, Lerner pontificated that "anyone who takes American popular culture seriously must try to get at ... the sources of The Question's success . . . what it reveals about the American mind and about where TV is . . . heading." Lerner finally decided that the show was, in part, a morality play: "It is Huey Long's 'Every...
STATION WAGONS are fast becoming one of the most popular auto models. As the all-purpose family car, station wagons are now selling at the rate of 500,000 yearly...
...passenger cars produced in West Germany during the first seven months of this year, about one-fourth had engine displacements of less than 1,000 cc. (Volkswagen: 1,110). The Kabinenroller has been one of the most popular midgets (displacement...
...Mirror. London in Hogarth's age was a smallish city, as statistics go now. It was a place where the procession to the pillory of a popular prostitute (like Moll Hervey, who was set up at the Blackamoor's Head and Sadler's Arms in Hedge Lane) or an unpopular madam (like Mother Needham of Park Place, St. James's) might bring out a bigger crowd than a coronation. Londoners were a people who had yet to regard understatement as a virtue or overdrinking as a vice...