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...voted regularly before and who did not want to tell pollsters they planned to vote for Barry. Nor did large numbers of voters pass up the presidential race out of apathy or coolness toward both candidates. The presidential vote broke all records. The magnitude of the President's conquest also swept many other Democrats, such as Governor Otto Kerner in Illinois and, most notably, Senate Candidate Robert Kennedy in New York, to victory. Yet perhaps the most fascinating facet of the election was the amazing amount of ticket splitting, as voters chose L.B.J.-and then skipped down the ballot...
...covered the Middle and Far East for five years, then switched to photography in 1957 "because you can't have any fun at LIFE without a camera," produced such memorable picture essays as the 14-page color spread that retraced Alexander the Great's route of conquest through Afghanistan; of injuries sustained when he lost his footing while taking photographs from a high ledge in the Himalayas; near Tezpur, India...
...Peking covets is largely territory that was wrested from the Chinese empire by czarist forces in the 19th century. Land far to the east of Mongolia was settled by such Russians as Explorer Erofei Pavlovich Khabarov, whose band of Cossacks braved wolf-infested forests and Chinese warriors in their conquest 300 years ago. With the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689, Russia's position east of Lake Baikal was established, and by 1860, it had won rights to the Amur Valley and Vladivostok...
...with Leslie and thinks about other wom en. Episode 4: he takes Francine to bed-and she should have kicked him out for thinking about other women. Total result of all this phenomenological error: "Women at best are interchangeable," and sexual love is a "victory over despair, the conquest of metaphysical solitude...
...Conquest by Coup d'Etat. It was not mere vanity that motivated De Gaulle. His obstinacy had a political purpose. The Communists, Aron convincingly shows in this superlative account of the Liberation, were about to seize power in many parts of France. They made up a great part of the Resistance, and no one could fault them for their courage during the Occupation. De Gaulle realized that only by appearing as an utterly uncompromising, incorruptible leader could he win the confidence of Frenchmen and stave off a Communist takeover...