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...traditional call on Canada's Governor General. He emerged, grinning broadly, to say that he had been asked to form a Liberal government. Until the last minute, no one was quite sure whether Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who loves office so much, would go quietly or cling in defeat to the vestiges of power. Even as he prepared for his own call on the Governor General, he fended off reporters. Was his visit for the purpose of resigning? asked a newsman. "That assumption," snapped Diefenbaker, "is not well founded...
...Aurore trained its sights on a specific audience-the returnees from Algeria-and managed to boost circulation to 390,110. At Le Monde (193,017), austere Editor Hubert Beuve-Mery, 61, immerses his readers in a sea of small type without so much as a single photograph to cling to. But he has also made his paper must reading by virtue of penetrating, if plodding, political reportage. The greatest success story has been scored by a fresh, energetic morning tabloid called Paris-Jour, which sells 185,000 copies by heeding the dictum of Owner Cino del Duca...
...Because they cling to obsolete slogans," thundered Gaullist Minister François Missoffe last week, "the unions will suffer the same fate as the political parties and be demolished." But things did not work out quite that way. In France's northern coal fields, 188,000 miners wore smiles of victory as they trooped back to the pits after their bitter 35-day strike. Defying a government antistrike decree that could have resulted in fines, firings and jail terms, the miners had won an immediate 6.5% pay boost that will rise to 12.5% by next April...
...hailed as the man who destroyed Egypt's corrupt past and gave Arabs a new dignity. His picture, with its Pepsodent smile, is found in every corner of the Middle East, from Iraqi bazaars to the huts of royalist Yemeni tribesmen who still cling to Nasser's picture even though they are fighting Nasser's troops...
...remembered by the denizens of this fair University town, when one could go to bed secure in the knowledge that next morning one's daily portion of truth would be dished up along with the powdered eggs and watered grapefruit juice. For many, this assurance was a rock to cling to in the darkest hour. Whatever might happen, the New York Times would endure...