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...referendum passed by a 2,033 vote margin, with 25,068 favoring PR and 23,330 against. There were 8,224 blanks...
Cambridge was the first community in Massachusetts to adopt Plan E and PR. The system was instituted...
...spite of its graft and corruption, there was some good to be said for Cuba's seven-year-old democratic regime. Havana under Grau and Prío was a haven of free speech and free thought. They built schools, hospitals and highways. They gave Cuba a national bank, made loans to expand industry and diversify agriculture, and improved labor standards in a land plagued by seasonal unemployment. And, despite fantastic sums spent to sway elections, they kept the way open for democratic change...
...cynical old political practices will go on as before. Batista gave the lottery to the same lieutenant who handled it for him under his earlier dictatorship; he placed the customs, a traditional source of political enrichment, in army hands. In scrupulous conformity with the existing code, he left Prío's personal properties untouched-just as Prío had never laid a hand...
...Germain des Prés, on the Left Bank, long-haired men and short-haired women worked diligently to keep the cult going. Bebop boîtes, hairdos, beards, evening gowns, newspapers, cocktails, hot-dog stands became "existentialist." An under-tipped taxi driver would curse: "Espèce d'existentialiste." Existentialism became a familiar tourist attraction, like the Folies-Bergere. Sartre, increasingly successful and respectable, occasionally deplored the popularizations of his fad-he even felt compelled to move out of his favorite café, the Flore, to escape the tourists' vulgar stares. Last week existentialism took its ultimate...