Word: webs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Magnanimous. Into the polling places-Buddhist temples, tin-roofed schools, thatched jungle huts-swarmed 420,000 of the electorate. Somehow, Souvanna's web held. By week's end more than 30 of his supporters were elected, giving him a clear majority. In dismissing the previous Assembly for refusing to approve his budget, Souvanna had declared: "If the next Assembly is no better than the last, then I shall get rid of it." After the elections, though, he felt magnanimous. At a Vientiane news conference that included Russians, Americans and Red Chinese, he said: "I believe...
...said Leuam. "I could not possibly join it." Thwarted from both left and right, Souvanna was forced to allow more than 150 candidates for 59 National Assembly seats to run as independents-who might or might not back him if elected. He hedged the danger by weaving a complex web of alliances and patronage promises, then sat back to await the results. The night before the election, he invited 1,500 guests to a white-tie party at which the deadliest enemies ate and drank and gave each other the long Lao handshake that can last through an entire conversation...
Still, loyalties are never long-lived in Laos, and Souvanna's fragile web of alliances-of groups loyal to the top ten ruling families, to the military and to other regional powers besides himself-could easily rip. Fiery Neutralist General Kong Le, who fled Laos after a dustup over dragons' eggs (TIME, Oct. 21), was in Indonesia and uneasily noncommittal. Army Commander Kouprasith, who has his own ambitions for Laos, was enigmatically silent. A lot would depend on how Souvanna Phouma and the new Assembly get along together after it convenes in early February...
...that made a soft landing and televised relatively coarse pictures directly to earth, Orbiter focused the images from its medium and high-resolution lenses onto a fine-grain strip of film. After each section of the film was exposed, it was passed over a drum and pressed against a web treated with chemicals that developed it. After drying, the negative was scanned electronically, one narrow (one-tenth of an inch) strip at a time. Because each strip was electronically divided into 17,000 horizontal lines, enough picture information could be radioed back to earth to reconstruct prints showing almost...
...winning. The success of the Machine was predicated on a low voter turnout. That meant not only discouraging Negroes from voting, but also many poor whites. There have never been any outright bars to the ballot in Virginia, but intricate laws concerning residence requirements and an ingeniously devised web of poll taxes accomplished the same objective in a more sutble way. The electorate was kept within manageably limits. For instance, prior to 1945, only about, 12 per cent of all eligible Virginians voted in gubernatorial election. It was pleasant...