Word: rest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four to Nine. Even "pointed-headed" newsmen, as he calls them, now concede Wallace anywhere from four to nine Southern states in November and a large, though still unpredictable, impact on the vote in much of the rest of the country. Union members in industrial areas are deserting the Democratic standard in droves, even as large numbers of suburbanites and white-collar workers, who might be expected to vote Republican, are declaring for Wallace. Something like 2,500,000 voters have signed petitions to put Wallace's name on the ballot in the 50 states...
...capital. A select few have been carefully exempted from that harsh regimen, however, and can be expected to remain so. Not surprisingly, they are daughters of the leadership-girls whom the Chinese, in pre-Communist days, called "gold boughs and jade leaves," or descendants of noble houses. Like the rest of China's 375 million women, they adhere to austere and sexless blue-uniformity in public. There the similarity, and the egalitarianism, ends. In the plush suburban villas that Peking's leaders call home, they enjoy servants...
...many have felt a vibration of personal peace by crying "Om!" The trouble is that superstitions, like Occam's razor, cut both ways. Before Western man gets any more mystical, perhaps he should distinguish between superstitions that destroy tranquillity and those that enhance it. If he succeeds, the rest of the world will not have to keep its fingers crossed...
...crystals of dry ice can be used easily enough to turn fog into snow when the water droplets are at temperatures below freezing. That technique is regularly used at 21 major U.S. airports. But such "cold" fog accounts for only 5% of airport shutdowns in the continental U.S. The rest are caused by fog at temperatures above freezing, which until now could only be dispelled by chemicals that corroded metals, destroyed plant life or simply cost too much...
...more playful item, about half a dozen members of the cast do a kind of jungle gavotte. With kangaroo hops, lion growls and peacock flutterings, they imitate and invent animals. Each actor performs feats of remarkable physical agility. Quite possibly, the Living Theater's eventual fame may rest on throwing out Stanislavsky in favor of the R.C.A.F. manual...