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...contract ended a five-month boycott of program listings by Nashville's two daily newspapers...
Last week the French Residency at Rabat tacitly acknowledged that switching Sultans had not brought peace and issued a five-month box score on the terror: 58 killed, 117 wounded, 87 arson attempts, 41 bomb attacks...
...week's most famed visitor was Adlai Stevenson, who turned up for a conference with the President and a stag luncheon with 16 other top Administration officials. In two hours at the White House, Stevenson gave the President a report on his five-month tour of the world, and urged a nonaggression pact with Russia. The President, said Stevenson, was "very much interested" in his proposal, and assured him that "the Administration is examining closely [the proposed pact] as well as all other ways and means of relieving tension in Western Europe...
Family Trouble. At the age of twelve, he saw his free-spending but improvident father clapped into debtors' prison. Young Charles did a five-month stretch of child labor in a shoe-polish factory in the Strand; years later, he could not walk past the site because it made him cry. In his early 20s, he was jilted by a flirt whom he had worshiped for four years. On the rebound, he married Catherine Hogarth,* a pouter pigeon of a woman who gave him ten children but small joy. This brood he later called "the largest family ever known...
...sovereign without even knowing it. With Philip, her staff and their game-hunting hosts, she was spending the night in a tree hut in Kenya's Royal Aberdare Game Reserve, watching big game gather at a jungle waterhole. It was one of the rare moments of her projected five-month tour during which Elizabeth could really enjoy herself. As a herd of 30 elephants lumbered into view before sunset, she seized her husband's arm. "Look, Philip, they're pink," she whispered. The elephants, grey by birth, had been rolling in the pinkish dust of the forest...