Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peculiarly French subplot, the other main candidates-Socialist Gaston Defferre and Communist Jacques Duclos-are running for third place, primarily to establish their respective claims to speak for French workers. The real question is which of the front runners would inherit those votes in a runoff election, if all but Pompidou and Poher were eliminated (a runoff must be held if no candidate gets a majority in the first round...
...picturesque [meaning rowdy bullfights in little fiesta towns] is for when you are young, or if you are a little drunk so that it will all seem real, or if you never grow up, or if you have a girl with you who has never seen it, or for once in a season, or for those who like it. But if you really want to learn about bullfighting, or if you ever get to feel strongly about it, sooner or later you will have to go to Madrid...
...chance to express their feelings when a record 50% of Denver's registered voters turned out for the school-board election. At issue were two six-year seats on the seven-member board. In seeking those seats, Lawyer James C. Perrill and Frank K. Southworth, a real estate man, ran primarily "against forced bussing and for neighborhood schools." They won by a landslide, switching the board majority to 4 to 3 against integration...
...Dabrowski. Their dream airport is merely one of the more imaginative of a number of new proposals for airports located at sea or in other large bodies of water. There is nothing dreamy about the impetus be hind the proposals. Land-based airports are already jammed with traffic, and real estate for new ones is scarce and expensive. Even when sufficient open space can be found, local citizens are sure to mount powerful objections to the noise, danger and air pollution of a major modern airport. "A properly located ocean airport," say Gallichio and Dabrowski, "needn't interfere with...
Miss Hayter is definite about the effects of opium. It makes the user hypersensitive to sights and sounds while simultaneously putting a mystical distance between him and the real world. It obliterates the sense of time. In the early euphoric stages of addiction, it produces a serenity genteelly referred to as "invulnerable self-esteem." In later stages, it induces traumatic nightmares...