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...Peace Foundation" announced that Burton was giving it all his British earnings. Not so, cried Richard. He had merely donated a few pounds and did not agree with Lord Bertie's anti-American jeremiads. In fact, deadpanned the actor, he gives most of his loose pence to the Invalid Tricycle Foundation of Wales (for crippled miners). Wife Liz had a different challenge. For a Lido opening in Paris, the invitations specified evening pajamas, and half the haut monde came in lace or sequined trousers. Not Liz. "I.wear slacks to work," she sniffed, threw on her gold lame sari...
...Humphrey's foreign policy interests are not easily discouraged. After a one-day visit to Huron, S.D., to see his invalid mother and drop into his brother's drugstore (where he collected, as Brother Ralph put it, "enough bathroom supplies for six months"), Humphrey last week flew into Manhattan for conferences with Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson and lunch with members of the Security Council. One evening Humphrey and his wife Muriel saw Robert Preston in Ben Franklin in Paris, a musical show about the diplomatic old American who charmed the French into helping...
...selected by the stock-holders next week, Coop president Stanley F. Teele read letters from all six of "Mr. Dietz's purported nominees" asking that their names be withdrawn from nomination. He also noted that the nominating papers for the men had been examined by counsel and judged invalid because non-participating members had signed the petition. The crowd gathered in Harvard Hall hissed violently...
...important steady ing influence during times of confusion in Italian politics. Hence, when President Antonio Segni was felled by a cerebral stroke last August, Italians were concerned not only for the frail, oft-ailing Segni, whom they had long affectionately called malato di ferro -"the iron invalid" - but for their nation as well...
...iron invalid bounced back again, by last week was able to speak halt ingly, write with his left hand. But it seemed unlikely that he could ever resume the full duties of President, and the scramble was on for the succession with no clear winner in sight. Among the most likely: former Christian Dem crat Premier and center-left architect Amintore Fanfani; Foreign Minister Giuseppe Saragat, a Social Democrat strongly in favor of European unity; former Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni, now national president of the Christian Democrats...