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...twelve biggest cities, which collectively had long returned a G.O.P. plurality in presidential elections, Smith won a net plurality of 38,000 votes as against a net of 1,252,000 for Coolidge in the same cities in 1924. Smith lost his own New York State, but, except for 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt split the Republican vote, it had not gone Democratic since 1892. And, except for 1912, the two Northern states that Smith did carry-Massachusetts and Rhode Island-had voted Republican consistently since...
Churchmen were in the vanguard of the demands for reform, except for the Afrikaner Dutch Reformed leaders, who remained silent. Durban's Roman Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley warned bluntly that "Africans are determined to have political participation in their future, and I don't see how white South Africa can face up to it fast enough." The Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Netherlands-born Joost de Blank, announced that he was sending a representative to Geneva to ask the World Council of Churches to expel the South African Dutch Reformed Church unless it takes a stand against Verwoerd...
...Except that Observation Island lay on the sea's surface, this was the closest test yet to an underwater launching of Polaris on its urgent march toward operational deployment by late 1960. Premature burnout of the second stage cut 100 miles from the missile's programed flight, but the first complete test of the system's complex navigational, guidance and fire-control equinment was a success. Fort night ago, the Navy revealed, a dummy ("Dolphin") missile was ejected successfully by the submerged atomic sub George Washington, which will attempt an underwater, null Polaris shot in July...
...Congress and a moderate who had now joined the radicals in advocating pass-burning, was awakened and hauled away at 2 a.m.; soon the police were picking up "dangerous" whites as well, including all the top leaders of Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's little Liberal Party, except Paton himself, who commented, "I feel slightly disreputable. I must have slipped up somehow." Into the Cities. The Africans reacted like lightning crackling across the platteland sky. That afternoon a procession of 30,000 headed into Cape Town itself, chanting slogans and singing as a pink police helicopter, fluttering overhead...
...chocolate and peppermint. They are also using their cash reserves from high profits to diversify. Reynolds has already bought an aluminum-foil plant, Archer Aluminum, and Bowman Gray is looking for other companies to buy into, particularly in the consumer field. "We'd go into almost anything," he says, "except the mule trade." The industry looks to the future with confidence, not because it expects to be spared more crises?the next one could be definite proof that cigarettes cause cancer?but because it counts on the unchangeability of human nature. Based on the population growth and increased smoking...