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Election workers will check off each voter as he turns in his ballot, and will also invade dining rooms to catch the votes of late diners. And there is a strong rumor around Council headquarters that a brand-new set of wooden ballot boxes may be ready for the occasion...
Elliott does not intend to remain a mere wholesale supplier for long. The Roosevelts now raise 200 pigs a year and already have smokehouses to cure hams and bacon. They plan to put out their own brand (Val-Kill) of sausage, hams and cheese. A little plugging of their products should make it easy to sell all they can turn...
...consistent defeats inflicted by Dixie squads on Northern teams seems to indicate that Southern lacrosse is superior to the New England brand. But the annual North-South all-star game shows the boys in blue with a one game bulge. "We would do a lot better against the Maryland teams if we met them at the end of the season," observes Coach Maddux...
...first day, when Communist Minister of the Interior Vaclav Nosek "discovered" the National Socialist Party's conspiracy against the state, Prague shivered with cold and fright. Truckloads of armed police with brand-new automatic rifles rumbled through the streets. Opposition leaders were arrested and Parliament, scheduled to meet next day, postponed the session indefinitely. Archbishop Beran of Prague was refused permission to pray for peace on the Communist-controlled Prague radio. In the streetcars, which used to be favorite political forums, passengers were silent. President Eduard Benes' executive office announced that the President "asks all citizens to maintain...
...first few days, the rumor factories in Shanghai and Nanking got busy: the Gimo had been assassinated; he had gone mad; he was preparing to resign. One other rumor was actually true: the Generalissimo had indeed received additional U.S. technical help-he had just been fitted with a brand-new set of American false teeth...