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Last week Victoria's great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth (with the willing assent of her Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan) decided by royal decree what should be the style and status of her husband. "The Queen," said an official bulletin in the London Gazette, "has been pleased to declare her will and pleasure that His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, shall henceforth be known as His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
...worried? Frankly yes, said a Michigan-born volunteer, 28, while others nodded assent: "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried. You lie there on your bunk, knowing you've got cancer in your arm, and you just think. Boy, what you think about!" Why do so many volunteer so willingly? Several prisoners have given their reasons in letters to Warden Ralph Alvis. Said one: "I took a life, and the only way I can atone for that, even in a small measure, is through something like cancer research." Another: "I am just starting...
...Franco-British fleet hovered off the canal's mouth, Britain's Cabinet debated tensely. One member pointed out that the man who stepped in to referee a fight would hardly be justified in attacking the boxers if they stopped fighting. There was a murmur of uncomfortable assent. But Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden had gone too far to stop now. Only a matter of a few hours, he argued, separated them from full control of the Suez Canal and perhaps the downfall of Egypt's Nasser...
...this obvious invitation, the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles made the next conciliatory move. "The essence," he said, "if ... we are to seek justice, is that the operation of this international utility shall be insulated from the politics of any nation." By his manner, Fawzi intimated his assent; it was obviously time to head off Security Council action on an Anglo-French proposal to condemn Egypt for its canal seizure and explore what Fawzi meant by "cooperation." Fawzi agreed to meet privately with Britain's Selwyn Lloyd and France's Christian Pineau in U.N. Secretary-General...
...never been considered advantageous for a President to create a recess appointment to the Court, that is, to appoint a Justice to fill a place on the Court before the Senate can give its assent in January. Such an act enables a Justice who may not be confirmed by the Senate to participate in vital decisions. The difficulty is compounded in an election year, for should Stevenson win, he is immediately subject to the obvious pressure of allowing Brennan to remain on the bench. Although Brennan is a Democrat, he was, according to legal sources, probably not Stevenson's first...