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Those who oppose the age lowering cite the lack of agitation to show that the 18-year-old is not ready for the vote. Yet this apparent apathy can be used in one of the strongest arguments for giving him suffrage. Low polling turnouts, so common in this country, indicate that for many citizens an interest in political matters never comes. Its lack is evident not only in vote totals, but also in the popular opinion that politics and government are "dirty" occupations...
Interviewed in Paris by the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald, Author-Artist Ludwig (Father, Dear Father) Bemelmans told about his shrewd idea for luring patrons to a bar he has just opened on the He de la Cite. His plot: "It is my intention to plant some homing pigeons at the [square] in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I''II clip their wings so they can't fly, but will have to walk home. When all the tourists who come to see the cathedral and feed the pigeons start following my birds...
...given a special com mission and/or a special job? Photographers, pharmacists, private detectives et al. get special jobs, and a lot of other people too, like Elliott Roosevelt (who worked his way up to the rank of brigadier general) .... Anyone who has been in the Army can cite cases of special preferment...
...until someone measured and found that the house would run through the side of Holworthy. Fears of cutting down space for dancing on the grass, a form of amusement prevalent at the time, ruled out several other plots, but finally, amid protests about "the noise from Harvard Square," the cite of the "Old College" was accepted...
Father Marcos' voice went on. "Since women have been women, fashions have been like earthquakes. There is no stopping them. It is absolutely useless to censure them from the pulpit . . . Can anybody cite a case of a woman who lost her faith because she wore a sleeveless dress-or of a man who lost his faith from looking at her?" The cardinal joined his hands as if in prayer...