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Lord Home's crest shows a salamander standing in fire. To his friends, it symbolizes his patient, outwardly phlegmatic disposition, not easily touched by the heat of emotion, danger or disaster. As the grim-faced stream of ministers came and went through the black door of No. 10 Downing Street, the watching crowds got no hint of crisis from Lord Home's broad, boyish grin and jaunty stride. The Prime Minister-designate seemed serenely untouched by the jealousies and conspiracies of his riven party. As one Tory said not long ago: "He's never scared. He just...
Back in Malaya, Sukarno's mob action stirred up retaliatory rioting. "Sukarno is a Communist bastard," howled a mob of 1,000 youths who invaded the Indonesian embassy, hoisted Malaysia's flag up the flagpole, and ripped down a heavy crest of a Garuda-a mythical bird that is Indonesia's national emblem. Escorted by motorcycle cops, the mob dragged the Garuda through the streets and onto the lawn at Abdul Rahman's official residence. There, they lifted the Tunku onto their shoulders, then lowered him so that he could put his feet on the battered...
...either, when he retired once more. "It's been an annual event for 20 years," said his son Max, who as an R.A.F. group captain flew the fighter planes his father built, and who will one day, if he lives long enough, inherit the Beaverbrook crest and empire...
Chrysler last week became the first automaker to show off its 1964 models, and President Lynn A. Townsend described them as "the tried and true." That was a good description of what Detroit will offer the public this fall. Riding the crest of what seems likely to be the best auto year in history, the automakers have prudently left their successful 1963 models largely unchanged, relying on styling and mechanical refinements to provide a difference to sell. Even refinements can be expensive; Chrysler's changes will cost the company about $125 million...
Sundry Other Evils. On the first two convention ballots, Kefauver held solid leads, sat drinking beer in a hotel room and said, "I've never been more delighted in my life." But that was the crest of his career. On the third roll-call ballot, the big-city Democratic leaders ganged up on him. Kefauver was whipped. He trudged into the convention hall, tried wearily to get to the platform to pull out of the fight. He was ruled out of order, sat down sheepishly to watch as the convention rolled on to nominate Stevenson...