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...election to fill John Profumo's vacant seat at Stratford-upon-Avon, a true-blue Tory constituency. The news was bad all right, though hardly disastrous. Right-wing Conservative Angus Maude won with 15,846 votes, but the party's margin dropped from its 1959 peak of 14,129 to a mere...
...kept the ex-War Minister as their M.P. if only he had not lied about his affair with Christine Keeler to the House of Commons. Stratford's most serious criticism of the government was that it had launched an irritating political diversion in the Shakespeare industry's peak season. On the other hand, most voters were probably too busy changing dollars and Deutsche marks to change parties...
...Graveyard. Only at the race track do the old traditions survive. Gentlemen must still wear coats in the clubhouse; horses are still saddled and mounted graciously on the cool grass under the elms behind the peak-roofed grandstand. The annual August yearling auction is still the No. 1 event on a true horseman's social and business calendar; prices on unraced thoroughbreds run as high as $87,000. And Saratoga is still a "graveyard of favorites." It was there, in the 1930 Travers Stakes, that Jim Dandy, a 100-1 shot, galloped through the mud to beat Whichone...
...flares is not too great. During a 450-day period from October 1959 to February 1961, when he measured protons in space, 21 flares affected the earth. Most of them were not dangerous. But toward the end of November 1960 came three violent solar "events," one of which reached peak intensity of 46,000 protons per square centimeter per second...
...miles of dams that will trap and control some 70 billion cu. ft. of sea water that floods into the Quoddy and Cobscook Bays with each tide. At high tide the water will flow into a "high pool" in Quoddy Bay. Then once a day during the period of "peak" power demand (from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.), locks will swing open and a wall of water will cascade through giant turbines into a "low pool" in Cobscook Bay, generating 1,000,000 kw. of power...