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...election day approached once again in Dublin, the opposition Fine Gael Party sought a way to defeat Mayor Briscoe, who belongs to Premier de Valera's Fianna Fail. Playing both sides against the middle, Fine Gael forsook its own candidate to throw its electoral weight behind a promising independent and thereby make sure that Mayor Briscoe failed to get the clear majority of the corporation votes which he needed for reelection. The result was another tie vote, 21 to 21, so into the hat once again went Briscoe's name, together with that of the independent candidate-City...
Convert to Success. In neighboring British Columbia, Cecil Bennett, a hardware merchant and Tory politician, forsook his old party in 1951, joined the new Social Credit movement, led it to two straight election victories. He built roads, lured industries, cut the provincial debt and this year installed his own form ot giveaway: a $28 tax forgiveness for every homeowner. Bennett has masterminded Social Credit's plans to win national sway by nominating as many as 170 candidate: in Canada's 265 constituencies...
When reports linking cigarette smoking to cancer first came out. at least 1,500,000 of the 38 million U.S. smokers forsook the habit, said the Agriculture Department. Since then, most of those who quit "probably have resumed, mainly using filter-tip cigarettes." Commented a tobaccoman: "The cancer scare is good for filters...
...genial Winthrop Rockefeller, 44. The details of his life and marital woes-gleefully chronicled in the nation's press-have attracted as much public attention as the sober hard work of all his brothers combined. Four years ago, hoping to get away from it all, Winthrop forsook the cabarets of Manhattan for the hills of Arkansas. There, on a ridge 50 miles from Little Rock, he built a magnificent, $1,500,000 cattle farm called Winrock, from which he can gaze for 40 miles across the Arkansas River valley, heart of the razorback state. Today the Arkansas that Winthrop...
...staging impromptu Olympic games in ancient stadia and rewarding winners with stolen kisses. In the evening there were movies, and sometimes all hands joined to practice the mambo and the rumba, with Frederika easily carrying away top dancing honors. While the youngsters gulped gallons of Coca-Cola, their elders forsook champagne in favor of solider Scotch. At the end of one hilarious evening, some of the more enthusiastic princelings tossed their cousin Christian of Hanover into the ship's swimming pool fully clad, then all jumped in themselves. After that, Frederika ordered the pool emptied each night...