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...close that he had to stay up late to see the outcome. At one point during the night, the Detroit Free Press started rolling with an edition proclaiming that the proposed constitution had been defeated. Then somebody discovered arithmetical errors, and that legendary cry "Stop the presses" actually rang out in the pressroom. The final vote count has yet to be made, but the margin of victory was only about .6% of the 1.609,600 votes cast...
...mind: Were families that consented to having these electronic watchdogs truly representative of all TV viewers? An ex-Nielsen field man testified that he once had to try 92 homes in Grand Rapids, Mich., before he could place a single Audimeter. On another occasion, in Washington, D.C., he rang 400 doorbells before finding anyone willing to take on the more laborious A-R chores...
...morning early this month, a phone shrilled in the small office off the bedroom of Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Already awake, he lifted the receiver to hear exciting news: a military coup had just been launched against the anti-Nasser government of Syria. The phone rang again. It was the Minister of Culture and National Guidance. How should Radio Cairo handle the Syrian crisis? Support the rebels, snapped Nasser...
This done, Nasser finished dressing and went downstairs. The phone rang again, long distance from Baghdad. President Abdul Salam Aref, who only four weeks before had overthrown another anti-Nasser regime in Iraq, solicitously asked what Nasser intended doing about Syria. Nasser said that he would recognize a rebel government as soon as it was formed. Aref delicately responded that of course. Egypt should be the first state to grant recognition, promised that Iraq would follow suit five minutes later...
...Neapolitan canaglia, known for a thousand years as the scum of the earth, rose in heroic rebellion against allies they had always loathed. Out of manholes, cellars, caves and sewers crammed with smuggled guns and ammo they came storming, and in four historic days of blood and glory rang a tocsin that awoke the Underground from Naples to the Alps...