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Sympathy for Selwyn. The party's reservations were voiced out loud last week by former Prime Minister Anthony Eden, now Lord Avon, and Tory Kingmaker Lord Salisbury, who both protested that sacked Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd was "harshly treated." Added Eden pointedly: "I have no doubt that Mr. Lloyd will serve the nation again in high office." Macmillan's likeliest successor remains Deputy Prime Minister R. A. ("Rab") Butler, who last week solicitously assured victims of Mac's massacre that he had nothing to do with their demise...
...Shipbuilding, which advanced from 239th to 191st on the strength of Government orders for nuclear submarines. The high profitability of drugstore and door-to-door selling was clearly reflected by the companies with the highest earnings rates. Gillette led with a spectacular 40% return on invested capital, followed by Avon Products (33%), Smith Kline & French Laboratories (31%) and American Home Products...
...wife Nancy." Years before, as a youth on his first date, Allen had taken Nancy out. He moved on. Here was a pair of children's wooden Dutch shoes, there a few color slides of castles in Germany, some gay apparel, a brochure about Strat-'ford-on-Avon, a movie camera, a green Michelin guide to Paris, a little girl's dress, picture postcards from Florence, a half-burned evening slipper. "I knew nearly every one of them," said the mayor of Atlanta. "I went to school with some of them. I was in business with others...
...Radcliffe Young Republican Club recently elected Suzanne C. Ellery '64, of Holmes Hall and Philadelphia, president; Susan I. Swanton '63, of Henry House and Avon, N.Y., vice-president; Diana W. Allen '65, of Holmes Hall and Garden City, N.Y., secretary; and Anne W. Nason '63, of Holmes Hall and Cambridge, treasurer...
...addition to the College aid program, substantial awards from outside organizers have gone to 27 candidates. These grade 22 of the 38 National Merit scholars two of the five General Motors scholars and two Avon scholars...