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...election eve in New Hampshire, the big white clock in the cupola of Dover's city hall glowed down on the wintry town, and the resinous vapors of a torchlight parade gave a tang to the crisp night air. The kilted Granite State Highlanders tootled The Blue Bells of Scotland on their bagpipes, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the Democratic U.S. Senator from neighboring Massachusetts, marched behind them through the streets of Dover. In the city hall, 1,000 people waited to see Candidate Kennedy and to hear his last word in the first primary campaign of 1960. "Beginning tomorrow...
...rule, would vote Communist again. After all, the Reds had not been thrown out at the polls but removed from office on orders from New Delhi. This time the non-Communists were taking no chances. They borrowed freely from successful Communist tricks ranging from parades of painted elephants to torchlight processions. In the most Christian (24%) of India's 14 states, priests warned of the dire consequences if the Reds returned to power with their plan to give half of the teaching posts in church schools to Communists. Both sides plastered mud walls with gory posters. Red posters showed...
...Congress Party had teamed up with two bitter political rivals, the Praja Socialists and the Moslem League, so that the Communists could not slide into power in Kerala as they did in 1957 with only 35% of the vote. "Unholy alliance," sputtered Communist speakers who fought back with colorful torchlight processions, music and open-air movies...
...Reds only to a point. The top anti-Communist influences are labor leaders and the Roman Catholic Church. Last week, in a rededication to the faith that became a tacit show of strength against the Reds, a crowd of 200,000, including a subdued and silent Castro, paraded by torchlight into Plaza Civica for midnight Mass, paying homage to Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity. By radio Pope John XXIII voiced hope that Catholics would "save the Christian face of Cuba...
High in the balmy skies over Naples this week, planes from the U.S. Sixth Fleet will proudly spell out the word NATO. In the ancient German garrison town of Mainz, detachments from NATO armies will march in a grosser Zapfenstreich-the torchlight parade that is the German army's version of Britain's famed tattoo. In Washington the foreign ministers of the Atlantic nations are scheduled to sit around a V-shaped table to hear a speech from NATO's first commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower...