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...later backed the movement that installed Chamoun in office. A somewhat intellectual and moody mountaineer who studied in Paris and took to visiting an Indian ashram after his first parting with Chamoun, he now controls the south central area of Lebanon for the opposition. Chamoun's ultimate insult, he claims, was to deny him his ancestral parliamentary seat in last year's elections. As leader of a heretical Moslem sect, he is no friend to Islamic pan-Arabism, insists: "This situation has nothing to do with Nasser. It is an internal Lebanese matter...
...Prime Minister U Nu and his ministerial rivals, U Ba Swe and U Kyaw Nyein, whose personal and political differences have torn asunder the ruling Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (TIME, May 12). Behind them were tension-ridden weeks of politicking, rumblings of military coups, intrigue and insult. In the struggle for votes, one Deputy jailed on a murder charge was let out to cast his ballot; another, who had been hospitalized by an auto accident, was badgered daily by special pleaders; another resigned his seat in protest against continual harassment...
...tensions, even implied that Russia was guilty of "exploiting" her Communist allies. Even after Tito humbly changed his tune to something close to the Soviet line that all the world's troubles are caused by Western "imperialists," Khrushchev responded with what in the Communist world is a crushing insult-he refused to send a Russian delegation, only an observer, to the Yugoslav congress. Every other Soviet-bloc nation did likewise...
Britain's wealthy, mink-loving Lady Docker, her temper bubbling to a boil, sat in Monaco's overstuffed Hotel de Paris and mulled over the insult: all she wanted was to take her son Lance, 19, to a reception given by Prince Rainier and his Grace to celebrate the baptism of their princeling, Albert-and some palace flunkies had had the nerve to turn Lance away. Crossing her own little Rubicon, Norah Docker seized a paper Monacan flag used as a table decoration and hurled it to the floor. Word of the indignity soon burned the ears...
...Adding insult to injury, the varsity swept the doubles with ease. Gallwey and Vinton won over Bortner and Bank at number one, 6-2, 5-7, 8-6. The newly formed pair of Sears and Weld won at second doubles, crushing Clark and Keys...