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...administrator, but he is an expert on survival. With the help of one crack but overworked regiment of paratroopers, he quickly routed the Sumatran rebels in half a dozen brief and mostly bloodless battles, and drove the remnants into the hills. In the other islands, Sukarno sent troops against diehard colonels and won submission from pliable ones by giving them a free hand in running their areas once they had given him their allegiance. He also quietly redressed many of the economic grievances that had spurred the revolt...
...Diehard romantics declare that Eden's earldom has a far more intriguing explanation. Recalling that handsome, 30-year-old Nicholas Eden, Sir Anthony's son-about-town, has frequently been seen with Princess Alexandra of late, they insist that Father took the title to bolster young Eden's prospect of a royal marriage...
...Zouaves (a mixed French and Moslem light infantry outfit) moved into Algiers at 11 p.m., the ultra announcer on Radio Algiers cried: "We are being betrayed! To the Forum!" At the Forum, a large square in front of Algiers' General Government Building, a crowd of 25,000 diehard Europeans milled about and watched the death of their dream...
...whites, this was hardly a promise of anything. But could Kenyatta be kept out of Kenya's politics indefinitely? Even the diehard whites were beginning to admit that it was only a question of time before the man they dreaded would be back in circulation-probably as Kenya's first Prime Minister. Many white moderates were openly urging Kenyatta's immediate release to break the political deadlock. Swallowing hard, Nairobi's white-run Nation declared: "He refuses to commit himself on any major problems facing the country. [But] there comes a point when a leap...
With the Senate having already passed the Administration-backed bill to restore Dwight D. Eisenhower's five-star-general rank, the House added its approval in a virtually unanimous voice vote. The only naysayer: Arkansas' diehard Dale Alford, who explained that he could not stand aside "as all the colloquy was being piled higher without being reminded, and without reminding my colleagues, especially those from the South, that we are dealing here with the man who violated the Constitution by sending illegally, and in an unwarranted spirit of indiscretion, armed, bayoneted troops into Little Rock...