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...week before the balloting, three lined-up Simone voters came down with the grippe. In silence, at the deciding luncheon, the embattled ladies spooned their bombe glacée. When the voting began, the committee was deadlocked, but under pressure from Madame Simone, one Blue member began to abstain. Snarled another Blue: "My poor friend, once again you have understood absolutely nothing!" The third abstention, on the seventh ballot, allowed crafty Parliamentarian Simone to invoke a tie-breaking rule: as acting President, she cast two votes, and Novelist Megret, 53, had his Prix Femina. Cried the done-in Duchesse...
...Mollet, whose government fell on the issue of high taxes only last May after having lasted longer than any other since the war. Mollet offered a grim, emergency program of raised taxes and slashed government expenditures, finally won a tentative promise from Antoine Pinay's rightists to abstain rather than vote against him on his own promise not to push any Socialist programs. Mollet also demanded a new system of voting in the Assembly to stabilize government tenure. His reform would allow the Assembly to bring the government down only by an absolute majority vote on motions specifically aimed...
...properly protected? Said Abs: "There is only one means apt to implement such protection, and that is an International Convention by which all contracting parties, both typical capital-export and capital-import countries, undertake to treat foreign capital and other foreign interests fairly and without discrimination and to abstain from direct or indirect illegal interferences with such investment...
...Germany). "We cannot compromise the historic prospects for Europe,'' argued Nenni. Pro-Communist leaders complained that this would reinforce "the aggressive North Atlantic military bloc." After a tough three-day battle Nenni accepted a compromise solution by which his Socialists would vote in Parliament for Euratom, but abstain on the Common Market. When proCommunists still insisted on voting against both treaties, Nenni threatened to resign. With elections coming up next year and no leader of his Stalin Prizewinning stature in sight, the leftist Socialists approved Nenni's handwritten resolution, 59 to 13. This proves, said Nenni, that...
...Hawley, a medium-posh Connecticut prep school, the thoughts of youth are wrong, wrong thoughts, and the masters are "worn and cynical far beyond their years." Pupils are not, as at nearby Hotchkiss, "under oath" to abstain from smoking; Hawley's "deadly droops" (a Hotchkiss epithet) are merely forbidden this pleasure. For characters like Baxter (an outcast because he arrived from the West Coast, of all places, in a brown suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat...