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...rundown houses, gas stations, union hall, stores and churches. It is late in the year, but the weather is soft. Just above, on the elevated expressway, traffic whips by, but on the ground the slow beat of the music warps the day's rhythm into a doleful sway...
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there was a special land where you had to go to get the best in competitive swimming, and in that land a king and his legions held sway...
GEORGE WASHINGTON began the tradition of a two-term presidency and refused the offer of an American kingship, demonstrating that a personality, in his case not power-hungry, can sway the course of a nation. In Tito: The Story From Inside, Milovan Djilas attempts to show that Josip Broz Tito, out of a personal lust for power, established an unstable Yugoslavia that may not long survive his death...
...religion by the state. So the lawmakers drafted a sentence to appear on each poster: "The secular application of the Ten Commandments is clearly seen in its adoption as the fundamental legal code of Western Civilization and the Common Law of the United States." But that did not sway many members of the high court, who themselves sit in a courtroom decorated with artists' renderings of the Commandments. "The preeminent purpose," ruled the majority, was "plainly religious," because the document is "undeniably a sacred text" for Jews and Christians...
...Fernandez, a California millionaire businessman, has been concentrating on the state's large Hispanic population. "I told the party I don't want to talk with Republicans; I want to go to the barrios," Fernandez says. And he has, visiting 15 Texas cities in six days last week to sway the 35-per-cent of Texas' Hispanic vote that he thinks will clinch the state for Reagan...