Word: forms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...myriad U.S. political pulse takers, no one was more confounded by last week's elections than that presumably savvy gent, the local party boss. Between widespread (and carefully calculated) ticket splitting and outright reversals of voting form, the 1960 election hit many a state political machine like an earthquake, shattering cherished preconceptions and not a few careers...
Amusing Choice. The island selected by the British plenipotentiary, Sir Henry Pottinger, was Hong Kong (Fragrant Harbor). It was so barren and lacking in water that even the Chinese considered it uninhabitable. Pottinger's choice aroused derision in London, where "Go to Hong Kong" became a euphemistic form of cussing among fashionable ladies. And Queen Victoria wrote a friend: "Albert is so much amused at my having got the island of Hong Kong...
...There is state and local aid now in the form of tax exemption," Theodore R. Spizer, teaching fellow in Education, noted. "But tax exemption is one thing, and paying teachers' salaries is another. You have to decide where to draw the line...
Candela, a professor at the National School of Architecture in Mexico City, has designed and constructed a number of buildings in Mexico featuring thin concrete roofs in the form of hyperbolic paraboloids, umbrellas, folded slabs, elliptical domes, and undulating curves...
...perhaps bad form to say so, but there is one campaign issue which must not smother in the post-election Era of Good Feeling. The nation must not forget the systematic deception of the public practiced for eight years by the Eisenhower government. This is one of those evils against which angry dissent is more effective than understanding and tolerance; for the trouble is that Eisenhower is leaving as popular as he came. Unless the press and the public rub the point in, American governments will learn just how easy it is to fool all of the people...