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...source of delay is developing over the printing of ballots. In his decision, Judge Mitchell also ordered that the Election Commission "forthwith have printed, and appropriately distributed, ballots containing the resolution in the petition." But the Election Commissioners have found it impossible to go ahead with the printing of ballots, they say, because of the City's competitive bidding statutes. Any contract over $500, they say, must be advertised in local newspapers for two weeks before bidding begins. The bidding then must be kept open for another week, amounting in all to a built-in three-week delay...
Novelist Ludvik Vaculik, who shook a recent congress of the Czech Writers' Union with these angry words, was proved right sooner than he thought; he was forthwith fired from his post as an alternate member of the union's central committee and roundly denounced by the government. Czechoslovakia's Communist regime, which for a time was Eastern Europe's most tolerant in permitting liberalization to flourish, has recently returned to a pattern of repression. It is preparing not only to discipline Czechoslovakia's "unruly" writers, but also to take back a good deal of what...
...Hubert H. Humphrey found it "difficult, discordant and different"-although in good-neighborly fashion, he added, "It has distinction." Then, just before the opera's scheduled opening in Buenos Aires this month, Ongania changed his mind and decided that it was "too obsessed with sex." He banned it forthwith...
Chapter IV. Forthwith the couple flew off to the former colonies, leaving their three-year-old son behind in the care of a nurse. In New York, there was a lawyer who instructed them in the customs of the land, including the testing of blood, the taking out of a wedding license, and the finding of a justice of the peace, in this case one named Allen E. Saaf who, knowing in the ways of this world, said: "Because of all the secrecy, I had an idea it was to be an important wedding...
According to Baker, Kerr at once promised personally to lend him $50,000, advanced him $10,000 of it forthwith and arranged an additional $250,000 line of credit from an Oklahoma City bank...