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Will of the People. At the end of the debate, Lord Salisbury, the Tory leader, unwound his lean length to sum up for the government. Emphasizing the point that hanging is a matter of individual conscience, Salisbury, like Canterbury, declared himself against abolition, but also against the status quo. He was not worried that in defying the House of Commons, the lords might be fashioning a legislative noose around their own necks should another Labor government come to power. Salisbury has given much thought to the limits that the lords must set on themselves. When Labor came to power...
...stepped back onto solid, ground-level pavement. His face and neck were noticeably thin; at 163 Ibs., he had gained back just one of the seven pounds he lost after his ileitis operation. His brown summer-weight suit now fitted a little loosely, his West Point-squared shoulders looked lean. With Mamie on his arm to lend balance, the President carefully took the five steps down from the hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery of photographers. Then he slipped gratefully into Mamie's black Chrysler Crown Imperial, and sagged back...
...Turner] Catledge . . . expressed succinctly and convincingly the ingredients of the Times's loss of confidence in Mr. Shafer when he said: 'Not only must we be sure that the person who handles our [Communist] news is not proCommunist. We must be equally sure that he will not lean backward to prove that he is not a Communist or no longer a Communist.' Mr. Shafer could give the Times no such assurance, his record on the job notwithstanding...
...program. Today the bureau has study requests from 165 Washington towns; 60 have already organized informal study groups of their own. In the 22 communities where rejuvenation is accomplished or underway, 700 new jobs have been created, a total of $10 million worth of improvement projects financed. Says lean, intense Jack E. Wright, 37, Poston's successor as bureau director: "You can't have community lumbago when...
...Searchers (C. V. Whitney; Warner) is another excursion into the patented Old West of Director John Ford. The place is Texas, three years after the Civil War, and the lone figure moving across the vast plain is none other than lean, leathery, disenchanted John Wayne, still wearing bits of his Confederate uniform, still looking for trouble. Trouble finds him. One day, while John's back is turned, Chief Scar and his wild Comanches swoop down and massacre his relatives, carrying off two young girls for their own fell purposes...