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Well-Oiled Machine. While Duplessis did the public speaking, the well-oiled Union Nationale machine rolled effectively in private. Party organizers hired hundreds of idle taxis, rented vacant rooms, found temporary work for job seekers, to spread the aura of prosperity. Free TV sets were passed out to influential householders. In at least one case, the party helped with the down payment on a doubtful voter's house...
...improvement district was organized, and a $12,000 drainage ditch eliminated both health hazards. As the study committees pinpointed other problems, action groups took over. The littered railroad right of way through town was cleared of underbrush; downtown business houses were being repainted according to a master color scheme; vacant buildings were torn down to make way for new; a combination town hall-library-fire station was built. Involved in the project at one time or another: almost 70% of Snoqualmie's residents...
...little kid, he was something of a weakling and a crybaby. Even after he toughened up to hold his own in boyhood brawls on the vacant lots of Brockton, Mass. (pop. 65,000), Rocco Francis Marchegiano had little taste for fighting. He dreamed of big-league baseball, and he grew up to try just about everything else-ditchdigger, dishwasher, candy mixer, truck driver, snow shoveler and, in 1943, soldier. In the Army, Marchegiano discovered that as a soldier he made a good prizefighter. A civilian again, he tried amateur boxing, and did so well that he turned...
...departmental and upper-level General Education courses, however, often require no more than an hour exam. Hour exams do serve to test one's mental agility. And they make a good game, in which one sees how well he can furnish a blue-book from the warehouse of a vacant mind. Even if one does know the material, hour exams permit little time for serious deliberation of a question. The reward goes to the snap-decision, not the really rational consideration...
...bolt of lightning crashed into Eyobélé's hut, and a moment later nine women lay dead around the bier. Last week Bokouélé was a ghost village, in which Father Benoit Gassongo, the Roman Catholic priest and teacher, stirred among the vacant seats of the mission school and said his Mass in the empty chapel...