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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor. What was there to say? On election day, even his mother voted against the fat, foolish emperor. Reporters, touring the polls, could find no evidence of chicanery. There was no need for any. Premier Diem got his 98.2% of the vote. Only a few thousand among the 5,828,000 ballots were found to be invalid, a crushing defeat for the Communists, who had urged that defaced ballots be cast as a gesture of protest...
Lashed by the surf, lacerated by shore ice, alternately drenched and desiccated, the tiny inhabitants of the marine demimonde learn to live dangerously and adapt to the challenges of intertidal life. From a thousand examples, Author Carson evokes all the moods of the edge of the sea and of its inhabitants-strange, ugly, beautiful, bizarre. Nature's grace, order and mystery flow through her book like an underwater ballet. Again Author Carson has shown her remarkable talent for catching the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry...
...that best-of-all states-we're railroad people, and have tried quite a few . . . When my husband saw the picture of the Bitterroots, he spoke with such feeling and nostalgia: "That's just the way it looks-I've gazed on that scene a thousand times," etc. . . . Thank you, and our sincere congratulations to Mr. Smith on his excellent photography...
...Gills plan another European jaunt-then, perhaps, Australia. Eventually, when they become too feeble to keep up with their walkathon, they hope to pick out the pleasantest town they have seen and settle down. It will be a difficult decision to make. "I have the names of a thousand towns jotted down in my notebooks," says Dorothea Gill, "and after each one I have the notation, 'This is the place I'd like most to live...
...thousand officials from outside went in to mount watch at polling places. Red-and-white border barricades dropped down to keep out everybody else. Then some 650,000 citizens of the industrial Saar basin freely cast their votes. The question: Would they accept the "Europeanizing" of their territory, and thereby advance the cause of European unity and Franco-German amity...