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Silent Amnesty. Rural districts were equally peaceful. The peasants had declared a silent amnesty for many guerrillas who had returned home from the mountains. At Agios Georgios on the slopes of Mt. Helicon, the polling place was the schoolhouse from which guerrillas last year had kidnaped the teacher. An election...
On election day, Tory Anthony Eden put on a brown tweed suit and set out hatless to tour the polling stations in his Warwickshire constituency. At one Conservative headquarters, officials told Eden of two elderly spinsters who had sent word, "Don't worry about us. We shall bicycle down...
While Eden was sipping his cocktail, Aneurin Bevan, Labor's handsome dynamo, was completing a tour of 40 polling places, in his Welsh mining constituency
Britons do not use voting machines. On election day, the polls are opened at 7 a.m., closed at 9 p.m. When the polls close, the sealed ballot boxes are removed to a central "counting room" in the constituency, opened and emptied; it is then that the election officials embark on...
In the last half century in sport, which names glittered brighter than all the rest? This week, after polling some 400 U.S. sportwriters and broadcasters, the Associated Press completed its line-up of the nonpareils and their runners-up: