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Three hundred miles to the southeast, on the "Big Island" of Hawaii, workers from Kona coffee plantations and leather-faced cowboys from the Parker Ranch headed toward the polling places to mark, their ballots. On Kauai and the Big Island, and on each of the other luxuriant, diamondlike islands of the chain, the people of Hawaii were casting their votes in the first major election since Congress enacted the statehood bill last March. Never before had such a pageant launched an American state. To the polling places came men in bright aloha shirts and slacks, women in cotton-print Western...
...journalist husband as the first Greek citizen to hold a U.S. doctorate in education, Dr. Antonakaki took a job as adviser to the Ministry of Education and began agitating for a progressive school system in Greece. Like Xenocrates' shoe, she argued, the old system was of good, polished leather but it no longer fit the foot. "Now science has invented the machine which Aristotle sought to replace the slave," she said, and instead of segregating intellectual and manual skills in separate high schools, Greece should restore the classic ideal of "harmony," teach knowledge and technique to both hand workers...
...French village of Montmelian with seven companions (including a veterinary surgeon) and a 5,700-lb. female elephant named Jumbo, borrowed from the Turin zoo. In preparation for the trip, Jumbo was taken on long daily walks in hope that roadwork would condition her for the climb. Special leather-soled boots 30 in. high and weighing nearly 30 lbs. apiece were built to protect her feet. To guard against the cold and against bumps and scrapes in narrow passages, she was fitted with knee pads and a padded canvas overcoat. A three-ton food supply was rounded...
Cuba's country boys came to the big city last week, their feet squeaking in stiff new shoes, their machetes dangling in leather scabbards at their sides, their floppy straw hats tilted back in wonder at the apartment buildings and tourist hotels along Havana's seaside Malecon Drive. Their hero, Fidel Castro, had hauled them to town, 200,000 strong, in an egotistic political maneuver calculated to prove his mass support and scare his enemies. The poor dirt farmers, called guajiros, were delighted to yell their vivas in return for such a show...
Beatitude & Absorption. Suddenly a wail came from the crowd, as hundreds of hands seized the great ropes of Balabhadra's chariot and began to pull. With a screech of stretched leather and a grinding of wood on wood, the towering structure swayed into motion and started down the sandy avenue, flanked by policemen to keep people back from the huge wheels (though it has been decades since anyone committed the traditional holy suicide beneath the carts, accidents have been common...