Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a reluctant and benevolent dictator, who has vastly improved the stability of a country that was paralyzed by squabbling politicians before he took over. Considering Pakistan's backwardness and poverty, the Ayub-designed electoral system is not half bad, giving the vote to 80,000 middle-and upper-class electors. While that is a tiny percentage in a total population of 110 million, most of those millions are not only illiterate but totally ignorant of political issues. With heavy support in rural areas, where many Moslem electors particularly disapprove of a woman's candidacy and where Ayub...
...band of Simbas lay in ambush along the road leading into Poko, a small missionary town in the rebel re doubt of the upper Congo. Through "the jungle telephone," an advancing column of white mercenaries learned of the trap, cut through the bush and entered the town from the rear. As their skirmish line entered Poko, the whites were surprised to see the Simbas rush toward them jubilantly, their right arms raised in the rebel salute and shouting the rebel yell of "Mai Mulele!" It did not take the mercenaries long to realize that the Simbas took them for Russians...
Yale uses a computer to assign freshmen to the upper-class Colleges, permitting the preference of neither students or Masters to figure in the final decision...
...much more optimistic vein, however, Saloma outlined a program by which the GOP could recapture the presidency by 1972. By developing a moderate platform and nominating more effective candidates, he said, the party could successfully appeal to the basically pro-Republican suburban, upper-income voters who form as ever-increasing proportion of the population...
...Stanwyck) who owns the show takes a liking to the lunk and pays him to sing pretty for the people. He doesn't sing very pretty, but there are compensations-when he starts singing he stops acting. Anyway, just before the film ends Elvis presents a fairly stiff upper lip, pays off the mortgage, gets the girl. "Git closuh," he instructs her bluntly. "Ah give awff body heat." To doubt it would doubtless be unkind...