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...pleased by the public's ability to resist high-powered persuasion. The insurance industry spent $75 million backing four contradictory and confusing auto-insurance referendums. All were defeated, and a consumer initiative calling for deep cuts in auto, home and $ commercial insurance rates seemed close enough to ensure a recount. But Proposition 19, which proposed a 25 cents tax on cigarettes to fund medical research and education, passed, despite the tobacco industry's $16 million campaign to defeat...
Graham campaign officials said they are still mulling over the evidence before deciding finally whether to contest Thompson's victory. Under state law, Graham has 10 days from Election Day to ask for a recount, and 30 days to mount a legal challenge of results. Currently, the 16,536 city ballots sit in a vault...
...passed out on your favorite section leader's doorstep with a nasty rejection note taped to your forehead, but apparently your roommates and your section leader could clearly recall the night, your advances, even the hand gestures and anatomical descriptions you used. In fact, they were generous enough to recount the story repeatedly--for every television station and newspaper that asked...
...something; her support and the stable home she provided were vital to his success. Yet he betrayed her constantly, in an obsessive love affair with Actress Constance Dowling that took years to unwind, and before, during and after that in more brief affairs than he can count or recount -- including one with a cheerfully complaisant Marilyn Monroe. "Sick," Kazan pronounces, then adds, "People make fun of the male crisis at 45. I had that crisis all my life. I knew there was more to life than I was getting, and I didn't want to miss out on anything...
...this volume, The Jew from Babylon tells of an itinerant sorcerer and healer who travels to a remote village and falls victim to the dark powers that have supported him in his trade. The House Friend features a young man in a Warsaw cafe listening to an older man recount his amorous adventures with married women. The Smuggler describes a visitor with some books to be autographed who pays a call on a writer in his New York City apartment and reveals, with hardly any prodding at all, some secrets...