Voting in India described as successful experiment
The article notes India’s polls closing mark a major democratic milestone. It states more than half of 176 million qualified voters will have chosen among 25 000 candidates for 4 412 seats with 89 percent literacy. It highlights Congress capturing about two thirds of 496 seats while Communist gains rise, especially in the south and Hyderabad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Congress Party
Nehru
House of the People
Congress
Hyderabad
Nizam
4 Mostem
Nehru Faces Communist Strength in Indian Politics
The analysis notes Communists polling about ten percent of the popular vote while contesting fewer seats than Congress. Nehru remains anti-Communist at home but neutralist abroad, likely relying on centrist and right-wing factions within Congress. US aid may rise under a Bowles negotiated deal as Tibet border tensions grow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress Party
Nehru
Congress
Economist
London
Red Ching
Tibet
Nekrit
India
United States
Bowles
U. S
Answers from a Quiz Page: Historical Trivia and Odd Facts
A quiz prompts readers with questions about literature, history, and film, including authors, popes, famous figures, and early cinema. It also mentions a weather vane direction and a note on European industrial output relative to 1998.
Suit for Fifty Thousand Dollars Filed in Court
In Erin county court on Wednesday Monroe and Bella Phillips of Mendville filed a $50,000 damages suit against Sanitary Farms Dairy Inc Erie. The claim stems from a 1950 October 28 auto crash three miles south of Fairview on Route 98 involving a Sanitary Dairy wrecker and a stalled milk truck driven by Theodore Anderson. Mrs Phillips says permanent disabilities from the injuries, and her husband was injured as well.
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Court Bros
Erin
Mendvills
Sanitary Farms Dairy, Inc
Erie
Monroe Phillips
Bella Phillips
Mendville
Thomas Philips
Meadville
Fairview
Theodore Anderson
Phillips
Michael Rooney of the City Succumbs at Home
Michael Rooney, born June 16, 1878 in Spartansburg, died shortly before 10 this morning at his daughter Mrs Kenneth Gates’s home in R D 1. He had been ill for a year and leaves a daughter Mrs Gates a son Irvin J Rooney a sister Mrs Mayme Morris and several grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were not yet set.
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Michael
Rooney
Kenneth Gates
R. D
Deeased
Spartansburg
Corry
Burns and fires frighten Corry in 1982
Miss Frances Rowland a Senior High English instructor suffered severe burns at her home when grease from a stove exploded in the basement. A fire at East Smith Street was quickly contained by neighbors preventing serious damage. Helen Grace Crane suffered serious burns from a barn stove fire and was hospitalized. A stockholders meeting set for March 1 will consider renaming Corry Loan and Savings Company to Community Loan Company of Corry.
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Frances Rowland
North Center Street
Dennie Sawyer
Leon Blots
Smith Street
Helen Grace
T. H. Crane
Liberty Street
Gorry Loan and Sayings Company
Corry Loan and Sayings Company
Community Loan Company of Corxy
Mail order husband seeks Erie divorce after deserted wife
Erie February 1. Peter Matkovich aged 82 filed for a final divorce decree in county court Wednesday afternoon. He charged his wife Mary Olga from Marble Minnesota with desertion after she answered a lonely hearts ad in a Croatian newspaper. She came from Minnesota to visit his brother and they married.
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Erie
Peter Matkovich
Ich
Mary
Olga
Minn
Lonely Hearts
Minnesota
Matkoylcly
Kobesky Dies at 34 in Suburban Greenwood Home
Eddie Kobesky longtime Batavia Pony League manager and former minor leaguer died last night at his Greenwood home. A 18 year baseball veteran, he began with House of David at 16 and starred for the Buffalo Bisons in 1943 and 1944, leading the International League in homers in 1946.
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Batavia
Scranton
Eddie Kobesky
Batavia, N.Y
Greenwood
Kobesky
The
House of David
Buffalo Bisons
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Colegrave Colorave
George Sample
National Advertising
Fred Kimball, Inc
Lerington Avenue
New, Michigan
Equitre
Chamber of Com
Weightman
Associated Press
Neva Dispatches
Bethsheba
Hetty Green
Able
Trish Rose
Tobacco Road
Fatner
Gulf of Mexico
Michael William Balfe
Britain
Michael Rooney
Borstorff & Fitch
First Avenue
Corry, Pa
DeSoto
America
Goodrich Tire and Rubber Co
Goodrich
HOTEL
Batts
Comfort
Powell
Uarnin
Stahl
Clover Springs
Glendora
Sunsweet
Prunes
Jell-O
Ocean Spray
del Monte Catsup
Wheatley
Cake Bakers
Crisco
Tun
Planet Globes Lines
Hunt
Sues
Page & Nichols
E. Main St
Gabardine
Turinel
West Side
Bayon Suits
Katherine
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