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...filed by sex and there are no "women's precincts." But in traditionally pro-labor districts of Indiana, for example, election officials opened voting machines at noon "for repairs," found Ike leading after a heavy morning's vote by women. In Pawtucket, R.I., a Democratic poll-watcher cast his eye over long lines of women waiting to vote on election morning and commented: "Republican women always come out early. The only thing is that this time there are twice as many Republican women...
...astonishingly quiet Election Day. A few election officials unscrewed the backs of voting machines "for mechanical reasons" and sneaked a look at the vote. There was a little minor scuffling: in Albany, N.Y., a Republican committeeman punched a Democratic poll watcher in the nose. In Seattle an old man who had waited in line for three hours was told that he had forgotten to register. He began to weep. "This," he sobbed, "is my last time." The crowd yelled: "Let him vote." He registered forthwith, voted and said happily: "I thank...
...doesn't give autographs but I don't believe it. He'll give me one. I'm the only Republian in South Boston, almost. That's because I wasn't born here. There's twenty-six Republicans out of 800 voters in this ward. I'm a poll watcher, and I cherish each Republican vote. I'll tell Dick that," she said. "He'll give me that autograph...
...James Sheldon. But it is 27-year-old Wally Cox himself who gives the show its real flavor. Detroit-born Wally Cox fits naturally into Teacher Peepers' shoes. When he moved to Manhattan in 1942, he enrolled at City College for a botany course. "I was a flower-watcher," he says. "I still am, for that matter, but I found I didn't care how they worked; I just liked to watch them." Then he was drafted into the Army where, Peepers-fashion, he spent four months misclassified as a foot soldier before the Army gave...
...plant, dropped a curtain of security over the flight date, and barred all reporters. Cain, a staffer for the afternoon Star-Telegram, drove his car as close as he could get to the test field, and for days kept watch, until colleagues began calling him "Audubon Cain, the bird watcher." When he finally spotted the YB-60 in flight he could only swear; it was too late to make his last edition, and the morning Star-Telegram, also owned by Carter, would get the break on the story. Then, in a flight of B-36s hovering high overhead, Cain...