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...picked up her bags and her five children and left Freedom Palace. With a what-did-I-tell-you click of the tongue, the clubwomen promptly petitioned for a new law that would require Presidents to get parliamentary permission before marrying in office. That, they thought, might at least deter President Soekarno from taking his full limit of wives, which is four...
Water so rough that the regular Wilson Line Boston-to-Provincetown steamer wasn't sailing didn't deter the man. For Grover wasn't going to have a boat follow along with him. "No one has ever swum a distance like that without a boat," he informed a life guard...
...anniversary would bring violence followed by a mili tary coup proved to be mere talk. Time and again since Vargas' death, rumors of an impending takeover by the armed forces have buzzed about Rio. But Brazilian public opinion is so overwhelmingly anti-coup that it may well deter the restless generals and colonels from intervening in the presidential election scheduled...
...fight was far from ended. Advocates of public power accused the commission of holding up its decision until after Congress had adjourned. They also charged that Idaho Power rates are so high that they would deter new industry. Said Idaho's Democratic Congresswoman Grade Pfost: "There now can be no doubt that this Administration believes what is best for the power trust is best for the people." Growled Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse: "The Hell's Canyon decision will prove to be the Dixon-Yates deal of the Northwest...
...Blind River has not let Hirshhorn's proposition deter it from the more immediate business of making a fast boomtown buck. The town council turned down a plan for a general tax reassessment to provide revenue for urgently needed public improvements; all the improving underway is motivated by the familiar old law of supply and demand. Two of the town's hotels have built or are planning to build more bedrooms. Menard's department store, whose basement is given over to the only undertaking establishment in town, has prospered enough to plan a separate $30,000 funeral...