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...were speaking was the symbol of another new Poland. This one too was antifascist, but democratic, willing to be Russia's friend but not its vassal. At 45, sturdy, strong-shouldered Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is unquestionably his country's most popular political leader. Barring a rigged election or sudden death, he and his peasant followers seemed likely to emerge from any fair test at the polls as Poland's No. 1 political faction...
...characteristics of a plant or animal variety, according to old-fashioned geneticists, are passed down from generation to generation. Hybrids get their qualities from their parents, mixing them together according to a complicated and rigid set of rules. Any sudden change in a species, the geneticists call a "mutation." They do not account for it naturally, but consider it a genetic...
Murder, rape and sudden death scarcely stir the branches of this moss-hung family tree. Only uncultured Huey Long's drooling henchman is really outraged by the discovery that the heir to Belle Heloise is not his father's son, but his father's sister's bastard. Even stern Madame Mere accommodates herself wisely to the marriage of her daughter to the son of The River Road's "Dago peddler" (who becomes a millionaire purveyor of fancy groceries), and her granddaughter's marriage to the pilot of a river tug. For under the conventions...
...there will be no last-minute changes in room assignments, or the course catalogue, for these horrors are merely scale models of the real thing. As described in the current "Alumni Bulletin," they are highly detailed groups depicting actual, though anonymous, instances of sudden death constructed for use by students of legal medicine...
About 85% of the zone's eligible citizens queued up at the polls. But the heavy turnout was not all due to sudden democratic zest. Said Bürger Nikolaus Menge of Bad Sooden: "I'm voting today because it will please you Americans. . . ." Said Bürger Hans Berger: "The polling booths are the warmest places in town...