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...campaign summer of 1960, a century after Lizzie Stanton's declamation and 40 years after the 19th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote regardless of sex, the emancipated women of the U.S. are far from ridiculous. They form the largest single element in the American electorate (56.1 million women of voting age v. 52.7 million eligible men). Next Nov. 8 will very likely go down in history as Ladies' Day, with women voters outnumbering men for the first time in any peacetime presidential election. Both presidential candidates and their wives are coolly judged for their sex appeal (consensus...
...board, after a hearty lunch in the presidential room of Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel, officially endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket. Lone holdout: Negro Labor Leader A. Philip Randolph, president of the Sleeping Car Porters, who argued there was little difference between Kennedy and Nixon, suggested that Labor form its own third party...
Arcaya in demanding vengeance in the form of tough sanctions. Though he too supported punishment, U.S. Delegate Christian Herter looked ahead to suggest a cure for ending the Trujillo dictatorship altogether: a special committee of the OAS that would oversee a free election to establish democracy in the Dominican Republic...
Locomotive Chorus. When country singing came out of the hills, its highly developed morbid strain came too, and the form soon adapted itself to new material: guitarists began twanging out such up-to-date items as Old Man Atom with a locomotive chorus ("Hir-o-shi-ma, Na-ga-sa-ki"). When little Kathy Fiscus died at the bottom of a California well in 1949, the Ballad of Kathy Fiscus was probably inevitable, like the more recent Ballad of Caryl Chessman and today's Ballad of Francis Powers...
...average, at less than 25% valuation across the U.S. v. 40.8% for business properties. Land, comprising one-third of the U.S. national wealth, carries less than 5% of the total tax load. Not surprisingly, land speculation has made more millionaires since World War II than any other form of U.S. business or investment...