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...programs) had drummed up a big registration. Labor unions (which did not like his anti-labor laws) advised Democrats to switch their allegiance, get a Republican ballot and vote against Blue. Teachers (who did not like the governor's economizing on school funds) turned out in droves. Result: a stunning defeat for Governor Blue...
...finally fell before the power of Boito's poetry and his superb dramatic skill. Said Verdi, after completing Otello at 73: "If I were 30 years younger, I should like to begin a new opera tomorrow-on the condition that Boito provided the libretto." Boito did, and the result (with Shakespeare's help) was Falstaff, one of the greatest triumphs of both words & music of them...
...Crisis-conflicts" from the outside world kept popping up at Lake Success as abruptly as toast in a toaster. U.N. then sent such disagreeable matters to committee. Nobody had yet been able to make the result read like anything but disagreements in a committee meeting...
...Europe is still scarred, yet these new scars-like the older ones at Athens, Rome and Nimes-are becoming part of Europe's peace. Europeans have learned long ago that the danger which always threatens even their stoutest cities and their most cherished lands is not the result of any particular calamity, but man's permanent calamity on earth...
...statistics, concluded that the chances were small that the Mexican land would feed its people well. Four hundred years ago Cortes had reported that the richness of Mexico was inexhaustible. Since then, the pine forests that held rain water on the mountain slopes have been cut away. The result has been drought. The Indians have lost their skill in terracing their fields, and their lands are gullied and eroded...