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...know tobacco best-Philip Morris' Board Chairman Al Lyon, 67, and Benson & Hedges' President Joseph Cullman Jr., 71-have the same hobby: horseback riding. Last week they decided to ride the same horse, i.e., merge their fast-growing companies. The new company will keep the Philip Morris name and officers, absorb Cullman as chairman of the executive committee, his son Joseph III as a vice president. But the Cullmans will continue to run Benson & Hedges as a separate division...
Intent on extending the Liberal Party's string of four consecutive victories and 18 years of power is Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, 71, who succeeded William Lyon Mackenzie King as leader of his party and nation in 1948. St. Laurent was using an old and effective campaign technique. He traveled around the country making unemotional speeches, talking to schoolchildren like a wise old grandfather, mentioning with pride the accomplishments of his government, but abstaining almost wholly from campaign promises. With a powerful, entrenched party behind him, his own unmatched personal popularity, and an enviable record of producing both...
Within 24 hours, Utah's Republican Senator Arthur V. Watkins, Lyon's sponsor, withdrew his support. Then Lyon himself, realizing that the committee would not confirm him, withdrew his name. Director John J. Forbes, a coal mine safety specialist who has worked in the bureau 38 years, will stay on until someone else is appointed. The main responsibility for proposing so vulnerable a nominee as Lyon rested on one man: Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay, who had insisted that Lyon...
...most interested spectator at the explosion was John L. Lewis, who had been scheduled to testify the day after Lyon appeared. Asked to say something about the victory he had won, the U.M.W.'s Lewis smiled all the way out from under his brows and said: "There is no sense in putting a cap on an empty bottle...
Forty-eight hours after the court's decision. Mile. Germaine Ribiere, representing Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyon, crossed into Spain on the last of several recent trips to find the boys. This time they were waiting for her in San Sebastian, in the home of the Spanish provincial governor...