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...While the old-fashioned whistle stop did not seem the right way to campaign in streamlined 1952, there was far more whistle-stopping and more public response to it than ever before. But television, the brooder which had grown the G.O.P.'s Dick Nixon from ugly duckling to swan in only 30 minutes, had also come into its own and had generated new, baffling problems. As a result, big advertising agencies had become more deeply involved in the mechanics of politics than ever before...
They are: David King Sirota--Grays 31, Edward S. Stotler Jr.--Grays 1, Bruce G. Martin--Hollis 10, Arthur D. Bloom--Hollis 26, Newell B. Mack--Holworthy 11, Kenneth G. Swan--Holworthy 18, Christopher Del Sesto--Matthews 35, George W. Smith, Jr.--Matthews 74, Robert V. Goode--Matthews 28, John Dreyfuss--Mathews...
...minority quickly recovered from this blitz attack, and Councilor W. Dennison Swan '17 shouted: "This is a shame and a disgrace to the council . . . I can see the fine hand with the Italian dagger plunged into the back." Councillors jumped up, shouted their pieces, and vented emotional steam. Two opposition councillors, Swan and Chester A. Higley, made an attempt to get the council to reconsider its action, but the try proved feeble; reconsideration was defeated 5 to 2 with two absent...
...gustily swallowed every ounce of humor. Jerome Robbins' controversial The Cage was temporarily banned in The Hague because of its unusual theme of spiderlike viricide, but few Dutch hairs were turned when it was finally performed. Audiences almost everywhere agreed that one ballet was tops: oldfashioned, toe-tipping Swan Lake...
...minority quickly recovered from this blitz attack, and Councilor W. Dennison Swan '17 shouted: "This is a shame and a disgrace to the council . . . I can see the fine hand with the Italian dagger plunged into the back." Councillors jumped up, shouted their pieces, and vented emotional steam. Two opposition councillors, Swan and Chester A. Higley, made an attempt to get the council to reconsider its action, but the try proved feeble; reconsideration was defeated 5 to 2 with two absent...