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First there was the inconsequential Post and Telegraph Ministry budget, on which Mendès impatiently demanded a vote of confidence. He won-but by the narrowest margin of his meteoric, five-month tenure: 321 to 207. Later in the week, on the eve of his take-off for a ten-day visit to Canada and the U.S., Mendès asked the Assembly to postpone debate on the ugly North African situation until his return. Again he won-but by a still narrower margin...
Joseph Laniel survived the balloting by the narrowest margin-two votes-of his 10½-month tenure as Premier. The count showed 289 votes for, 287 against, with 33 abstentions. The French press called the result a "suspended sentence," and many a man in the street concluded that the Deputies, acting in psychic accord, had engineered the two-vote margin as a stinging reproof to Laniel. Bringing down Laniel could have caused new elections, and the Deputies' own seats would have been in jeopardy. Three Gaullists who had intended to abstain changed their minds and voted for Laniel...
...Squeal Tire. An automobile tire that neither hums nor squeals on turns has been developed by the U.S. Rubber Co. The U.S. Royal 8 has an almost rectangular "footprint" that keeps an extra amount of rubber on the road, and its tread design is reversed, with the narrowest ribs at the outer edge. The tire, say U.S. Rubber officials, will also give 25% more mileage. Price: about...
Mankind will succeed in avoiding its own destruction "only by the narrowest of margins, and only because, time and time again, when one side or the other was about to take the plunge . . . the expert military advisers could not guarantee ultimate success," he said...
...will keep him awake." The trouble is that the Constitution does not give the Vice President much work to do. His sole, specific mission is to preside over the Senate. Since the jealous Senate has always made it plain that "preside" was to be interpreted in the narrowest possible sense, anybody who can stay awake can do that...