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Gathering a cluster of followers, he formed his National Popular Alliance Party, carefully keeping his own name off the rolls, and started feeding on the country's discontent. In the 1962 congressional elections, Rojas' party won six seats in the 192-seat Congress. In this year's March elections, his party jumped to 27 seats...
...cluster of pits showed up with edges that did not look as jagged as those of most lunar craters. As Ranger dropped lower, the clustered craters grew, and one of them showed black dots inside its rim. Nothing of the sort, said Kuiper, had ever before been seen on the moon. His guess was that the pits were made when a giant meteorite hit the moon and dug the conspicuous crater Copernicus, which is surrounded by "rays" that are believed to be splashed-out material. Astronomers used to think that this material was some sort of dust, but Kuiper...
Green Bird. Most of the artists created new works for the museum, and they came to the opening to purr over their work. Miró built a cluster of giant terra-cotta and cement sculptures, including a huge green bird, a giant pitchfork, and a Miró-size ceramic egg in a pool. As the opening festivities for 150 select guests wore on into the flower-scented twilight, he could not tear himself away and sat on a wall, clucking like a proud hen: "Look at that egg! It's the largest egg in the world...
There is little difficulty during the day; police talk relatively freely, explain to disbelieving southern tourists that they do not know if there will be a riot that night, and smile at the girls making eyes at them. But while three white policemen cluster around two old negro men playing chess on the sidewalk of Seventh Avenue, a car with loud speakers cruises by, blaring "you have the right to vote--Don't be intimidated--you have the right to vote!" A squad car follows quietly a half block back...
...part of the full-honors retirement ceremony, Taylor reviewed the troops, stopping occasionally to talk with a soldier, inspected some howitzers and found them spotless. That done, he received from McNamara his third oakleaf cluster in lieu of a fourth Distinguished Service Medal. Said McNamara, borrowing the title of Taylor's The Uncertain Trumpet, his post-retirement analysis of U.S. defense ills: "Maxwell Taylor has never sounded an uncertain trumpet. He will always be one of the first to whom we turn with the hard tasks, the great challenges...