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...action, after hectic diplomatic activity in the Big Three capitals, threatened a major rift in the Atlanic Alliance at a time of critical new efforts to draw it closer together...
...Wall Street it was the most hectic week in years. The stock market, which has been sliding gradually downhill for three months, suddenly nose-dived and opened the week with the biggest one-day break since 1955. The Dow-Jones industrial average plummeted ten points to 423.06, lowest level since May 1955. Every major group took a beating in the slump, with drops in such stocks as Du Pont, American Telephone & Telegraph, Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear, Alcoa and all but three of the 25 rails...
...Haiti, the peaceful election ended a hectic ten months of intermittent rioting and revolt during which six governments tumbled and two election attempts failed. Mild-mannered Dr. François Duvalier swept the countryside, rolled over the city majorities won by Planter Louis Déjoie, and emerged with 71% of the 950,000 votes cast. Some fraud was unquestionably committed; e.g., primitive, roadless La Gonave Island, with 13,300 voters in 1950, reported 18,941 Duvalier ballots to 463 for Déjoie. A hard-working doctor who has spent years working to eliminate yaws in Haiti...
...civic-minded lunching clubs, e.g., Kiwanis (membership: 250,000), Rotary (450,000) and Lions (564,000) are booming. Explains one Kansas City Kiwanian: "It's the new release valve. At a Kiwanis lunch, a man can find relief from business thinking for an hour or two during a hectic...
Rush & Fuss. The President's shortlived attack came after a hectic four days in which he flew to Florida, spent two days aboard the carrier Saratoga, worked on and delivered a major pep talk to Republican leaders meeting in Washington, and drove to Washington's American University to deliver a speech (in praise of the U.S. Foreign Service) while receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree. Over and above all else, the President was fretting about two items of substance: 1) the future of his legislative program, especially military and foreign-aid appropriations; and 2) the wrangle with...