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...Pool. By custom, the search for a new Premier to replace the downfallen Joseph Laniel began with the man who had been most vigorous in opposition. That took President Coty straight to Mendès-France, a confident, energetic lawyer and economist...
According to the custom that the man most responsible for bringing down a government is given the first chance to form a new one, President Coty asked Mendès-France to try. He would have a hard time without the Communist vote, which he spurns, and without Bidault's M.R.P., which spurns him. Communists the world over may well have calculated that the fall of Laniel would produce a surrender government in France. But an unfavorable vote for Mendès-France would be a significant rebuff to Moscow...
...disastrous performance was undoubtedly the famed 18th hole at Spring Mill near Philadelphia in the Open of 1939. It has become a classic of a kind. His first shot hooked into the rough and left him with a sandy lie. Instead of playing a cautious game, Sam took a custom-made 2½ wood from his bag and aimed a daring shot right at the pin. He flubbed it; the ball landed in a fairway bunker. Trying desperately for the green, he slashed an iron shot that landed on an overhanging lip above a sandtrap, rolled back toward the sand...
...towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Slim Carmichael the Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount seemed custom-made for Capital. It is powered by four Rolls-Royce turboprops (i.e., gas-turbine engines that drive propellers), can carry 48 passengers at a cruising speed of 335 m.p.h. In service with British European Airways, Air France and Air Lingus, the Viscount has proved an economical operator over medium-distance routes such as Capital has from New York and Washington to the Midwest. On European routes its vibration-free performance and relative silence have lured many a traveler from piston-engine planes. While operating cost per hour...
...waited for her return trip in Florence, Kate spent the day as usual at the courthouse ("I just love politics"). Then, a little after 5 p.m., the boys and girls began clambering into the bus again. Each year, on the last day of school, it has been the custom of Kate's passengers to sing her a song, and as they sighted Oracle on the way home, they joined in May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You for the last time. Next fall, when the new high school opens at San Manuel, a few miles from Mammoth, things...