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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Vote for the Future | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Mad Three Weeks | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 25, 1967 | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singers: Champion Country Picker | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...creation of new programs in agriculture, engineering and business administration and the reordering of present university programs are recommended as a means of closing the wide gap that exists between the needs of Vietnam and the purposes manifested by public higher education. The careful selection of students for professional programs, the opportunity to select careers wisely, and the adjusting of numbers of students to program needs in the country are the outcomes expected of of the centralization of undergraduate study. Combined with attention to individual problems, the university should by these means reduce drastically the very high percentage of students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey of South Vietnamese Universities Describes Severe Problems, Shortcomings | 8/22/1967 | See Source »

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