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...South Carolina the voter has had to make his choice in full public view. Each party had its own ballot, and the voter picked up the one he wanted from the Republican or Democratic stack on an open table. Last week Governor J. Strom Thurmond signed a bill giving South Carolina voters for the first time a privilege that citizens of the other 47 states have long enjoyed-a single, secret ballot...
...minutes after walking into the "Little White House" at Key West's Naval Station, he went to work. With a flourish he signed the bill repealing federal taxes on oleomargarine-one of the Administration's few legislative successes of the year-and tackled a stack of documents which had been flown down from Washington. It was the first of a series of chores he had set for his three-week vacation; he proposed to keep in telephone contact with congressional leaders, to chip away at regular paper work, and to plan 1950 campaign strategy...
...often that a book can be judged by its cover, but in the case of Wait for Tomorrow the publishers have made it almost easy. In the right foreground, out of a Dali-type desert, rises a stack of 85 gold coins. A kingly crown lies in the sand nearby, and a derelict liquor bottle dribbles into oblivion. In the distance a ridge of bloody mounds bars the way to a paradisiacal grove of cloud-pink skyscrapers...
Perry's Widener stack pass was revoked last year, and he never received permission to use Houghton. Official at Houghton stated yesterday that the stolen Swift volume was a small one, and that Perry might have picked it up during an attempt to sell books and documents to the library...
Library officials had suspected the man for some time, and his stack pass had been revoked. Metcalf had permitted the man to go unapprehended when he promised to aid in the return of the stolen merchandise...