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...Communists know, East Germany is a "Democratic Republic," and with regularity Communist Party Boss Walter Ulbricht hauls 99.8% of his faithful electorate off to the polls to vote the official state slate. Last week's provincial and local elections, however, were to have been different. The people, decreed Democrat Ulbricht, would actually be given a choice: there would be 246,000 candidates for 204,000 jobs...
...something besides a family. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first." The idiot is Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, played by reformed Stand-Up Comic Don Adams. Smart has little piggy eyes, a voice that sounds like a jigsaw on slate, and a perpetual self-satisfied smirk. When challenged, he is too dumb to panic, bluffs fluently: "Would you believe that I can break eight boards with one karate chop? No? Would you believe three boards? Would you believe a loaf of bread...
...labyrinthine mysteries of the League race will begin to untangle this afternoon when Princeton meets Cornell at Ithaca. The winner of that contest could easily go on to win the title. In other games on this first full slate of Ivy play, Yale meets Brown and Dartmouth host Pennsylvania...
Nyerere himself ran unopposed for his second term as President, but 107 seats of Parliament were also at stake last week. Rather than go through the farce of running a single slate, TANU had put up two candidates for every seat except those held by six top party officials. TANU gave each opponent equal support, paired them off in daily joint appearances and assigned three referees to supervise each match. Then the party stood aside and let the candidates fight...
From 300 yds., only the black snout of a machine gun could be seen, poking between green spikes of wild rhubarb on the black slate ridge. Smoke from Chinese cooking fires rose in the clear air. "Let's get a closer look," said the Indian officer, clambering down to the road. "If the Chinkos open fire, get down and we'll take care of the rest." Our group of four moved forward, flanked by three jawans with automatic rifles and covered by others in the granite-block fortifications behind us. Around a curve we came on a group...