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...shortage of pens for registering voters had threatened to delay the balloting. Authorities beat the illiteracy problem by printing a different colored ticket for each of the 15 competing parties. The voter thus had merely to select his favorite color from the fistful of slips handed him, and seal the card in an envelope as he stood in the secret polling booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Democracy Is Green | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...city it is fourth in a field of four. Its foreign staff, shattered by the war. and its crack London bureau were getting back^ to full strength. And in a new overseas edition, an airmail version of its weekly, the paper was making its voice heard overnight to a select and growing audience (now 1,644) in the U.S. and Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guardian's Milestone | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Last Wednesday, playing before an audience of thirteen passionately interested members of Professor Theodore Spencer's English 23a, a select company of fifteen actors and actor-types handled "Henry IV, Part Two" with much humor and ability. The two hundred students who, unwittingly or not, cut this session at Fogg Auditorium could not have found more pleasant diversion at any of the local movie palaces, or melded any more ammunition for their November hour exam in the solitude of their ivy-cased studies. Peter Temple 1G, directed and played King Henry, with Mendy Weisgal '45 as Justice Shallow, David Hersey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 11/1/1946 | See Source »

Considered by many the world's leading atomic physicist, Nobel Prize winner Nils Bohr of Denmark, will speak to a select audience of science concentrators this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the lecture hall of the Mallinkrodt Chemical Laboratory. His subject will be the "Present State of the Elementary Theory of Particles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bohr Speaks This Afternoon | 10/29/1946 | See Source »

...only defensive tactics on which the Crimson forward wall was able to equal the feats of the Purple bruisers. With a few well-scattered exceptions, the Cantab line kept the H.C. ground attack throttled, with so many of Harlow's linemen looking good that it was almost impossible to select any standouts...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Victory Over Purple Eleven Strengthens Varsity Offense | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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