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...power was based on the rural vote and Georgia's unique, decrepit county-unit system. Roy himself was born on a farm in southeast Georgia, knew his woolhatters and had something on almost every politician in the state. In a state where 122 city votes can be offset with one tame woolhatter in a rural county and 25 woolhatters can sometimes swing a county, Roy's system worked fine...
...blew off La Paz last week for the first time since the bloody 1946 revolution in which the capital's citizens hanged their dictator from a lamppost. This time the capital's schoolteachers touched off the explosion by demanding higher pay to offset the government's recent currency devaluation. Within hours, a raging mob was surging through the streets denouncing Conservative President Mamerto Urriolagoitia (pronounced ooreo-la-goytcha...
...order to offset Russian victories in the cold war, the United States must greatly increase its production and its imports during the next ten years, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, claims in the current June issue of the Atlantic Monthly...
...Harvard Service Bureau, leviathan among its competitors, employs 12 typists and boasts the Square's one photo-offset machine. This device, which produces an even right margin, attracts a heterogeneous clientele--reports from the Dean's Office to programs for the Union Dance Committee. The Service Bureau professes stenographic friendship for students and faculty alike, but some people have stretched its good will, believing Service to include baby sitting and information on transcontinental trips...
...conditioned Lamont Library, a new educational policy, and a liberal sprinkling of co-eds are some of the things the Summer School is counting on to offset an anticipated nation-wide decline in enrollment for the coming year...