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...Populi. In Detroit, Law Student Frank Castelluccio noticed on his absentee ballot that no one was running for the New Buffalo, Mich, township's Highway Commissioner, idly wrote himself in, was elected by one vote...
...Populi. In Washington, New Hampshire's Senator Norris Cotton received a fan letter from a high-school girl: "All my friends are saving pictures of movie stars, and I want to be different, so please send me photos of twelve senators, but pick carefully, even the best are sort of funny looking...
...Populi. In Washington, New Hampshire's Senator Norris Cotton received a fan letter from a high school girl: 'All my friends are saving pictures of movie stars and I want to be different, so please send me photos of twelve senators, but pick carefully, even the best are sort of funny looking...
...Populi. To the troubled Princess, it was small comfort that there were some who tried to dismiss the whole matter as a moss-backed anachronism. Racing to the Princess' defense, the cocky tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,665,000) asked its more influential brother (circ. 221,972): "Would the Times have preferred this vivacious young woman to marry one of the witless wonders with whom she has been hobnobbing these past few years? Or to live her life in devoted spinsterhood? Luckily the Times cannot banish Princess Margaret. It speaks for a dusty world and a forgotten...
...Rome, with massive solemnity, the canons of Santa Maria Maggiore took down from the altar the painting of Mary and Child known as Salus Populi Romani (Safety of the Roman people). Holding high the holy, red-brown painting, done on wood and attributed by Catholics to St. Luke, they marched through the streets of Rome, followed by a vast procession. On the steps of St. Peter's, the canons of the cathedral received the Salus Populi and placed the image on a dais in Michael-angelo's basilica. There, this week, in the presence of some 40 cardinals...