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...unable to attend the gala concert of the visiting Philadelphia Orchestra as planned. Late into the evening, Her Majesty would be compelled to spend her time sorting out that most un-Dutch of royal embarrassments: a Cabinet crisis. "A rather unusual phenomenon in the Netherlands," the Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant termed it. "But there are moments in life," the Het Parool of Amsterdam told its readers, "when one has to make a decision...
...dollar, and we admit the average man cannot afford the kind of insurance coverage that he needs." The trend has shaken the insurance business to its deep and respectable foundations. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. (No. 11 in the U.S.) has vigorously opposed the specials. In Life Insurance Courant, New York Underwriter Halsey D. Josephson complains: "The surrender . . . to the expedient of issuing specials . . . may very well be the beginning of the end of American life insurance as we have known it, [because it breaks] the tradition of equality for all." Special policies are not new (Metropolitan...
...that Connecticut voters have received anonymous letters meant "to poison their minds" against Ribicoff, and he asked the Republican state chairman to "discourage" the practice. Meanwhile, a former Democratic Congressman announced that he would support Lodge because of the Democratic campaign tactics, and a letter appeared in the Hartford Courant stating: "In the closing days of the political campaign, Mr. Ribicoff has done what many of his fellow Jews hoped and prayed would not happen...
...Heap O' Livin'. In Hartford, Conn., Salesman John Holmes, advertising in the Courant, offered to sell ". . . 40 acres of Pin Oaks and Black snakes. Old-world charm includes sagging floors, tortuous stairway and draughty fireplaces . . . Dandy opportunity to toughen up wife and kiddies ..." reported several nibbles the first...
...last week, the Hartford Courant reported that Bowles's chances for the nomination "have gone glimmering." That day Bowles formally bowed...