Word: lost
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Astonishingly, no lives were lost, but before the week's carnage ended, 1,158 combatants were hurt (596 of them police) and 1,081 arrested. In support of the rioters, Communist, Socialist, Christian Socialist and teachers' labor unions ordered an illegal 24-hour general strike, a move that could leave France without railroads, buses, subways, electricity, schools and other public services...
...count at week's end showed that Labor dropped 1,282 borough council seats, while the Conservatives gained 1,295. Steelmaking Sheffield, for 40 years a Labor fief, fell to the Tories; so did Norwich, after 35 years of Labor rule. London went solidly Conservative as Labor lost 16 boroughs, holding on to a mere four...
...continuance as Prime Minister. Press Lord Cecil King, head of Britain's largest publishing empire and a Wilson supporter in the last two general elections, demanded that the Prime Minister resign. In a signed frontpage blast in the Daily Mirror, King wrote: "Wilson and his government have lost all credibility, all authority. We are now threatened with the greatest financial crisis in our history. It is not to be removed by lies about our gold-dollar reserves, but only by a fresh start under a fresh leader." King's attack carried the authority of an insider...
Despite his woes, Wilson's grip on the reins of government is not yet weak enough to threaten him with immediate ouster. Though Labor has lost the last seven Parliamentary by-elections in a row, it still holds a 73-vote majority in Commons-down 24 from its 97-seat edge after the March 1966 elections. Parliament's term runs until the spring of 1971. Barring an unlikely uprising inside the Labor Party, Wilson can govern until then, even though the majority of Britain's electorate has swung clearly to the Conservatives...
...sank a 12-ft. birdie putt on the last hole to win the $11,500 Shreveport, La., Kiwanis Club Open and walk off with her third victory in a row, a feat topped by only one other female pro in history: Mickey Wright, who twice won four straight -and lost to Carol by one stroke last week...