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Despite seven and a half energetic months in office, former French Premier Mendes-France failed in his most significant objective--the creation of an effective parliamentary majority with which to govern France. Without that majority, any hopes for a revitalization of the long-stagnant French economy are bound to remain illusory. But far from spelling final defeat for Mendes-France's reform plans, his overthrow should offer a new and greater opportunity, if he acts wisely in his coming period of opposition...
...away with anarchy." said Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón, explaining why he ran for President of Panama in 1952. As the country's strongman police chief he had watched five men try to govern Panama during the span of one normal presidential term, had reluctantly turned a couple of the failures out of office at gunpoint. President Remón brought order out of disorder, and Panama found the sensation so pleasant that it marked him down as almost indispensable. But last week Remón lay dead, and something like a relapse into anarchy plainly threatened...
...Ecuador," says President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, "is a very difficult country to govern." He should know; he is currently involved in his third try at it. The big difficulty in both of his previous terms was the armed forces. Velasco twice tangled with top commanders, who accused him of unconstitutional conduct, and twice got chucked out of his job. Last week it was Velasco v. the military again...
...certified public accountant is a professional man, a specialist, who offers his services to the public on a fee basis, like physicians, scientists, lawyers and engineers. He is subject to the same type of ethical restrictions relating to advertising and soliciting new clients as govern the other professions...
Last week Bernard Marmaduke Fitz-Alan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, announced that Ascot would relax its rigid rules. From now on, participation in a divorce action will not be grounds for automatic exclusion from the royal enclosure. The same old rigid rules would still govern admission to the patch of ground immediately before the Queen's box, known as the "Queen's Lawn." And now that the big barrier is down, said the duke, the size of the royal enclosure will be doubled...