Word: close
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...voting machine in Pennsylvania) would be worthwhile. Most of the party leaders sent negative replies. But last week, after an emergency meeting of the National Committee in Washington, G.O.P. investigators moved into eight marginal states (Illinois, Texas, Missouri, New Mexico, Nevada, South Carolina, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) for a "close, hard look at the situation." Illinois Republicans, scanning a shaky 10,157 Kennedy lead-mostly in machine-run Democratic Cook County-had already ordered a re-count of more than 5,000 precincts. "If in Illinois and several other states Nixon receives a fair and accurate count," said Nixon...
...Close Election Gives Old Arguments New Force
...this, however, failed to satisfy Moroccan Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, who, as boss of his nation's armed forces, decided that the 1960 parade would not be complete without some jets flying in close formation overhead. To fulfill his dream, the prince got a promise from Morocco's former French masters of twelve Mistral jet fighters to form the nucleus of a new Royal Moroccan Air Force. Last week, on the eve of the "three glorious days," the French welshed, irritated with Morocco's increasingly active support of the Algerian rebels...
Shades of Dutch & Legs. Three of India's 15 states have close to total prohibition ; nine others ban liquor in some areas. In all of them, bootleggers have come up with ploys undreamed of by Dutch Schultz or Legs Diamond. When eleven pregnant women filed onto one Bombay streetcar, an Indian cop with limited tolerance for coincidence arrested them all, found they were pregnant with football bladders filled with booze. Some bootleggers use lepers as delivery boys, confident that the police will shy away from searching them. Others cache their product in containers tied to the underside of manhole...
Last week Monsignor Boza Masvidal, as head of Villanueva University, expelled 17 pro-Castro students for signing a letter claiming that Boza was preparing a plot to close the university, then blame the government. Government agents surrounded Villanueva, searched everyone entering or leaving, including the bishop himself. But this time the church showed no signs of yielding...