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...avert a threatened civil war between Kong Le and those who opposed his coup. King Savang Vatthana accepted as his Premier Kong Le's candidate for the job: Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma. As his part of the bargain, Prince Souvanna turned around and named as his Interior Minister General Phoumi Nosavan, leader of the anti-Kong Le faction. Everybody seemed relatively happy with the arrangement, at least for the moment...
...usual, the voting was staggered over four Sundays to permit the government to concentrate police and army on one area at a time. As usual, the Parliament seats were allotted according to religious sects, a device designed to avert the religious strife that ravaged Lebanon for years. Figuring that Christians outnumber Moslems 6 to 5. 45 places of the Parliament's 99 seats were apportioned to the Moslems (subdivided into three sects) and 54 to Christians (30 Maronite Roman Catholic, eleven Greek Orthodox, six Greek Catholic, four Armenian Orthodox, one Armenian Catholic, one Protestant, one miscellaneous minorities). This convention...
Kress & Co.. the sixth largest U.S. variety-store chain (1959 sales: $154,422,000). He was brought to Kress two years ago, after the top management resigned to avert a proxy fight. Trustees of the Kress Foundation, which holds 42% of the stock, had balked at the lagging company's conservative policies. Cobb expanded into new merchandise, but he failed to stop the sales slide, which has continued every year but one since 1952. For the first five months of 1960, sales fell off 5.6%, and the directors cut the quarterly dividend from...
Emergency Regulation. To avert more cancellations, Eastern went to a federal court in Miami, got a temporary restraining order requiring Eastern pilots to give the forward observer's seat to FAA inspectors. Quesada, stung by what he termed A.L.P.A.'s "arrogant defiance of the Government," rushed through an emergency Civil Air Regulation, requiring the forward observer's seat to be turned over to FAA inspectors. For pilots who balk. Old Pilot Quesada laid down the penalty that hurts most - suspension of a pilot's license. Rather than disobey the court order and the new FAA regulation...
...British merchants have been buying from the U.S. at a record clip. In the first quarter of 1960, U.S. sales to Great Britain are up 61%. But British sales to the U.S. are up only 14%. Great Britain has opened a drive to increase sales to the U.S. to avert a return to the unpopular import restrictions...