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...Glacial Silence. At week's end the General Assembly overwhelmingly passed the resolution 66-0, with 30 nations-including the U.S. and Britain-abstaining. Unresolved, of course, was whether France would pay any more attention to the General Assembly than it had paid to an earlier decision by the U.N. Security Council calling on both France and Tunisia to withdraw to their original positions. Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, somewhat satisfied with paper victory, sounded a conciliatory note. "The dead of Bizerte must not be an obstacle for the future," he said. "Once our territory is entirely liberated...
...glacial Charles de Gaulle promptly melted. It was not the first time Jackie had worked her magic on the French President; last year, during his trip to Washington. De Gaulle observed with a sigh: "If there were anything I could take back to France with me, it would be Mrs. Kennedy...
...longtime supporter of the regime, Delgado struck out for himself in 1958 when he broke all the rules by campaigning seriously for the presidency of Portugal in one of Salazar's mock elections. There were plenty of issues to campaign on. After 29 years of Salazar's glacial rule, literacy barely reaches 60%, the tuberculosis rate is almost double that of any other Western European country, and per capita income ranges from $100 to $199 a year-on a level with Libya and below Mexico and Panama...
...have a happy future in the house. There was a perceptible silence. Then Master Johnson, age nine, piped up, "There isn't any Mrs. Johnson. One's dead and one's divorced," adding hopefully, "but Daddy's got a girl friend." As the silence turned glacial, Mr. Hallowell rose from his fireside, smote the roadside restaurateur smartly on the back, and speaking for the first time said, "Bully for you, Johnson...
PITCHING. The Pirates have the requisite pair of strong men to start as many as five of the possible seven games: Mormon Elder Vernon Law (20-9), who has glacial calm and a fast slider...