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...ensure fair elections, the military council had appointed one of Ghana's most distinguished judges to head an election commission. There were triple-sealed tin ballot boxes and acid baths for destroying unused bal lots. A major reason for Busia's over whelming majority was that both par ties appealed for tribal support - and got it. The Akans, among whom Busia is a royal prince, are four times as nu merous in Ghana as the Ewe tribe, to which his adversary Gbedemah belongs...
...strokes on the greens-six more than Player, five more than Bert Greene, who finished third, and eleven more than fourth place Jimmy Wright. Floyd really won the P.G.A. with his booming, if sometimes errant drives, and with his beautifully wrought iron play. He hit 59 greens in par, compared with Player's 53. There was another ingredient in Floyd's winning eight-under-par score of 276: self-assurance. "I feel superb," he said midway through the tournament. "I just don't see how I can shoot over par." After the match, he admitted: "Confidence...
Though some of the solid balls have not yet been accepted for tournament play by the U.S. Golf Association, the players who use them are not complaining. Tournaments are not for the over-par golfer anyway. The only real trouble with the solid-state balls is that -just like the old ones-they are embarrassingly easy to lose...
...Buenos Aires, so he took it. Thus, Lalo (his real first name is Boris) was born in 1932 in a city that drew no cultural and social lines between various forms of music. Argentine folk music, Spanish songs, American jazz and pop, the classics, were all treated on a par-especially in the household run by Schifrin's father, concertmaster of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic...
Unlike all the directors of Paris Vu Par, Straub has never developed a dynamic sense of the frame, one which puts people, settings, and objects in a framework where they interact. The critical consciousness of the French directors literally make their films what they are. For Straub it is not critical consciousness but self-consciousness. The difference between Paris Vu Par and not Reconciled is the difference between well applied film theory and hastily applied Ideas About Film