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...corner snipped off so that he could not use it to vote again. He then picked up one envelope and eleven separate ballots, each bearing the symbol of a ticket and photographs of its presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Election officials carefully instructed him to enter the polling booth, select the ticket he wanted to vote for, insert it in the envelope and then drop the sealed envelope in the ballot box. The voter was to tear the other ten tick ets in half and insert them in a refuse box. The same procedure was followed with the Senate slates...
...honesty of the election, but it has not made Thieu's task of transition from military to constitutional rule any easier. Thieu's first job as President is to pick a Premier who, under the constitution, presides over the daily running of the government. Then Thieu must select a Cabinet. The Premier is likely to be his campaign manager, Saigon Lawyer Nguyen Van Loc, or perhaps Suu's running mate, Dr. Phan Quang Dan. In the effort to broaden the base of the government, a goodly number of the Cabinet posts are slated for civilians; Thieu...
Once bought, the clothes are rushed off to New York. On arrival, the cartons are rushed to a select group of Seventh Avenue manufacturers who do the copying job for Ohrbach's and Alexander's on special consignment. The appropriate European clothmaker, contacted in Paris, has already sent along precisely the same fabric that went into the original. But sometimes the search for just the right button or strap can take days. When copying time comes, the originals are never taken apart...
...lines of cleavage among us. Whitney Young and others like him represent the upper crust. They claim to speak for their oppressed brothers in the ghetto but cannot even speak to them. Those of us who live in the ghetto are doomed to name our own leaders and to select our own representatives...
...records and over 300 tour dates later, Watson is located dead-center in the forward thrust of country music toward highbrow as well as lowbrow respectability. The very impurity of his style, coupled with the exhilaration his work generates, goes a long way to accomplish this aim. Like a select few before him (John Jacob Miles, Travis, Clarence Ashley), he forms a bridge between America's primitive folk heritage and the sophisticated listener...