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...John Diefenbaker, the appointment, made after the portfolio had lain open three months following the death of External Affairs Chief Sidney Smith, is an almost perfect choice. The position crowns the career of a loyal retainer with no designs on the party leadership. Diefenbaker will set overall foreign policy, while Green will handle day-to-day problems and parliamentary rough-and-tumble. In bypassing younger Tory potentials, Diefenbaker also avoided tabbing any heir apparent...
Like a stink bomb with a time fuse, a typescript of Nicholas Crabbe has lain for almost half a century in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Now exhumed for first publication, the novel fulfills the pungent promise hinted by literary investigators who have concerned themselves with the strange case of its author, Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias "Baron Corvo...
...miles away. Yet there last week was a marvel of modern engineering: one of the world's longest single-span freight tramways, stretching 9,010 ft. across and 2,800 ft. up to the south rim. Its purpose: to haul bat manure out of caverns where it has lain for ages and hopefully net the haulers $12.5 million profit on a $1,000,000 investment...
...President's Council of Economic Advisers under Harry Truman, rapped "tricky gadgets" of inflation, such as cost-of-living escalator clauses in union-management wage contracts. "We should stop passing the buck to [Washington]," urged Nourse. "The real source of inflation in the postwar U.S. has lain in the marketplace-in the institutions and practices of labor-union bargaining and corporation price administration...
Senate Southerners, accustomed to using the unlimited-debate rule to talk civil rights measures to death, got a bitter taste of their own by-the-rules medicine. Dusting off a rules paragraph that had lain idle for a decade, Senate Republicans used it last week to save the Administration's civil rights bill from the strangling clutches of the powerful Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James 0. Eastland...