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...Council after one year in the Philippines' favor. With that understanding, the delegates elected the Yugoslavs by a decisive 43 out of 70 votes. That done, delegates stood up for a traditional minute of silent "prayer or meditation" and then, to the bang of Senor Maza's gavel, scurried home. It had been a contentious, tiring 13 weeks for all. and particularly for Assembly President Maza, who was also besieged by an increasing round of diplomatic teas, dinners and cocktail parties. "You have to drink the same Scotch or the same Manhattans," he complained, "and eat the same...
...American Cancer Society's Statistician Edward Cuyler Hammond rose at the gavel to explain what kinds of smokers get the most cases of lung cancer, and to discuss whether it does any good to quit. He and Assistant Daniel Horn drew from impressive data: the smoking and life histories of 188,078 men interviewed in 1952, and watched ever since. By the end of last October, 8,105 had died-285 from apparent lung cancer...
...Mandate? But Avery angrily turned down the deal. When the annual meeting publicly exposed Avery's slipping grip and Corporation Secretary John Barr had to take over the gavel, the five directors knew they could wait no longer. They decided that Avery must be replaced by up-and-coming John Barr. Also slated for ouster: Edmund Krider, 42, an ex-accountant picked as $76,000-a-year president by Avery in 1952, who was considered to possess Avery's ruthlessness without either his charm or ability. The directors tackled Avery again, suggested that having won over Wolfson...
Study in Underpants. Last year Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley impressed himself on the folks back home by posing for photographs with his gavel about to descend on the bald dome of New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator H. Alexander Smith; this year New Jersey's 320-Ib. Democratic Representative T. James Tumulty made a big impression by posing in his underpants (TIME...
Like "the gavel of fate striking the dome of time," Big Ben struck 1 a.m. In London, General Spears sat alone with Prime Minister Churchill, a "heavy hunched figure in black." At this moment on June 10, 1940, Italy had entered World War II. Churchill began to speak, and "for the first and only time in my experience." writes General Spears, "I heard words akin to despair pass his lips...