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After a week of campaigning, Algeria's voters were urged to flock to the polls to vote for one unexciting 138-man list of carefully selected candidates for the National Assembly. The pro-government newspaper Alger Republicain tried to reply to "those who regret that our country is not the scene of electoral battles as are practiced elsewhere" by lamely explaining that a "multiplicity of parties and programs is not necessarily synonymous with real democracy...
...Johns-Manville Corp., a psychiatrist, an Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. executive, a consulting engineer, their wives and a public-school science teacher who was moonlighting as a bartender at one of the parties, as well as another bartender, two caterers and part-time waiters. Judge Eielson's regret seemed to be that he could not fill Fairfield County jails with parents. "The guilt of needless loss of life is in every living room in this community," he said. "I wish I had the power to get at every parent who is guilty...
...blockade forcing the Russian satellite to reroute its minimal trade with Japan and other overseas countries through Vladivostok-a journey more than double the length of the old route through Tientsin. The petty recriminations from both sides of the long border could only have provoked sighs of regret from oldtime Communists. Under Joseph Stalin, the ultimate commandment was harshly enforced: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor...
...Teched Him Off." The enemy gunners could not hit York without wounding some of their own soldiers. And no German who peered over his gun to figure out what to do lived long enough to regret it. "Every time one of 'em raised his head, I jes' teched him off," York later explained. He fired 17 times-and 17 enemy soldiers died. Finally, German officers on the hill realized that York was virtually alone, sent eight men charging him with bayonets. York had used up all his rifle bullets, but he took out his pistol and picked...
Scott's poetry has neither the topical fire of a Robert Lowell nor the flinty edge of fellow New Englander Robert Frost. Neither profound nor powerful, the poet at age 54 writes what he describes in his present volume as verse of "regret"-for lost youth, lost love, lost chances...