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Steadfast Devotion. The Chancellor hoped in vain. The gossip grew even louder (it has assumed "the shape of scandal," protested the stately London Times). And it seemed likely to continue for months to come. The latest word is that the Queen, the Queen Mother and Margaret herself have agreed to do nothing until the Queen and Philip return from a visit to Australia next May. The royal family apparently hopes that by then Margaret's ardor for Airman Townsend-now neatly isolated in an air attache's job in Brussels -will have cooled. Margaret apparently hopes that...
After the council's announcement, the protests grew even louder. F. Champion Ward, dean of the college and a staunch defender of the Hutchins degree, sent in his resignation (Kimpton turned it down). All nine members of the faculty policy committee, as well as the chairmen of eleven departments, begged the chancellor to reconsider the council's action, "taken after . . . consideration too brief for so grave a matter." The heads of all student organizations also protested, then summoned a student rally. All in all, it was like old times at Chicago-but with the revolution going the other...
...wave on jubilatory occasions, and now waved them with the fervor of shipwreck survivors signaling smoke on the horizon. Prime Minister Churchill, however, was not satisfied with the demonstration. His face working with emotion, he rose and wigwagged some papers in his hand to rouse his backbenchers to louder applause. To old Winston Churchill, who was himself Chancellor the last time taxes were pared back, 24 years ago, this was indeed an occasion for cheers...
...start of the main 200-mile race, the roar of the Bergstrom crowd was quickly drowned by the louder roar of the 19 entries-Allards, Ferraris, Jaguars, etc. The president of the Sports Car Club, Driver Fred Wacker Jr. of Chicago went out early with engine trouble. After the first few laps over the tortuous 4.48-mile course (including turns of 110° and 135°) the race settled down to a neck & neck duel between Chicago Manufacturer Jim Kimberly, 45, in a Ferrari, and California's Phill Hill, driving a Jaguar C. The Jag was quicker...
...noisy fighting stirred up by congressional investigations into campus Communism grew even louder last week. But according to the booing and cheering, spectators outside the actual ring were throwing some of the best punches...