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After 53 speeches by assorted comrades, ailing Party Chief Maurice Thorez rasped his decision: the party would abstain in the Chamber of Deputies. Said Thorez: "It is absolutely imperative today that we do not detach ourselves from the Socialists. We must therefore avoid raising the barrier of a hostile vote...
Savrola is a rollingly romantic tale of "revolution in Laurania," and Churchill some years later, after noting that it "yielded about seven hundred pounds" (not more than $3,500), confessed: "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it." The legend, though denied by son Randolph, persists that Churchill tried for a time to buy all outstanding copies of Savrola, to reinforce his friends' abstention...
...today's council meeting, the CCA block will continue to abstain, CCA-endorsed Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 said last night, in order to give the independent majority "another go at electing the mayor." If they fail, Crane added, the CCA block would cast its four votes for one of their number, probably Crane himself or Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, and give some independent a chance to resolve the issue by supporting a CCA man. Crane doubted however, that any independent would vote...
...indicate how he will vote when the 1956 plan goes before the convention. In past year's he has always voted no. This year, however, considering the nature of the plan and the University's pleasure with its operation last fall, it is very likely that he may either abstain from voting or go so far as to support the plan. This would indicate a major change in University policy toward NCAA television...
...lose its virtual control of the Security Council, despite an occasional Yugoslav-Russian compact. Two voters are no more effective than one. If the U.S. bludgeons its allies into electing the Philippines, however, it will score only a Pyrrhic victory. In order to save face, the U.S. delegation could abstain from voting, itself, but it should put its tacit yet influential support behind Yugoslavia...