Word: coms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilson was clearly shaken by the challenge, but in a head-cracking emergency Cabinet meeting, he managed to force his will. He then assured Com mons, while Brown sat in a sullen, cross-armed slouch, that he had backing "as a whole" against the arms sales. The rumors continued that Brown, whose rambunctious social behavior has never seemed to bother Wilson, was not long for the Cabinet, even though such a move would split the party down the middle. Wilson's political stock also waned when he prearranged parliamentary support for continuing the ban-the first time in recent...
...Pont Copeland, 62, who moves up to chairman. While he becomes only the second president from outside the Du Pont family, Charles Brelsford ("Brel") McCoy, 58, hardly ranks as an interloper. Son of a onetime Du Pont vice president, McCoy has two sons and a brother working for the com pany, and his sister Anne is married to Du Pont Secretary Henry T. Bush. An other brother is Landscape Painter John McCoy,-two of whose works have long hung in Du Pont's walnut-paneled president's office in Wilmington...
Friendly Five. To avoid a head-on collision with France, the ministers of the "friendly Five" worked out a com promise formula that is not likely to satisfy anyone completely but may cool matters. The formula agrees that Brit ain should be given a definite answer to its application by the Six this week, just as London demands. But it further provides that if France's intransigence prevents a unanimous reply, as seems certain, the whole matter will be put off and discussed later...
...then piled into a 1938 Chevrolet and drove off with his wife-destination unknown. Only a chance pickup of a Washington, D.C.-bound hitchhiker led them to that city, where he took a $75-a-week job in a paint store. His wife went to work for an insurance com pany. From their combined incomes, Wolman paid off the creditors, and in 1952 he decided to start his own paint-contracting business. This, in turn, led him into real estate-and more debt...
...into the river. Eventually some boys found it on the beach, opened it up, and there was the girl, as pretty as ever and, by now, head over heels in love with the prince. So she got a job in the palace kitchen making omelets-which became somewhat com plicated after some witches showed up and hexed 3,000 eggs into hatching...