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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality & Philosophy. Sincere and single-minded about his political future, Bill Proxmire does not smoke or drink, teaches Sunday school (Episcopal) and wallows in the Congressional Record. In 1955 he was divorced, after nine years of marriage, two children, from Elsie Rockefeller, great-granddaughter of old John D.'s brother William (she later married a man who helped out on Bill's 1954 campaign). Last December he married Mrs. Ellen Sawall. 32, a pert, Virginia-born Phi Beta Kappa (University of Richmond) with two children, whom he met while she was financial secretary of the state Democratic Party...
...protection of this country," said he last week, "I consider it sufficient that we enter into defense agreements with Britain." But for all his lack of enthusiasm for military pacts, Abdul Rahman is determined to clean up the Communist revolt that has plagued Malaya for the last nine years, at a cost to Britain and Malaya of $1,680,000,000 and nearly 4,500 lives. "My aim," says Abdul Rahman, "is to bring an end to the Communist terrorists' war by August 31, 1958. We may issue new terms of surrender, and if the Communists do not accept...
...this week the big news was the opening of the fair. The U.S.-which made a great success at the Damascus Fair three years ago with Cinerama-concluded that Cinerama was not enough to save Syria from Soviet penetration, and was not represented. It was left to exhibits from nine Communist countries to dominate the fairgrounds...
...Patrick Renison, the British governor, named Jagan as Minister of Trade and Industry, named Jagan's U.S.-born wife Janet, once a Chicago Young Communist Leaguer, as Minister of Labor, Health and Housing. To aid the nine Jaganites and the five leftists from splinter parties who won the 14 elective seats in the Legislative Council, Renison used his appointive powers to name nine additional councilmen who, though they are all nonCommunist, are friendly enough to Minister Jagan...
...Insurance. Animal Insurance Co. of America has been formed in Manhattan as the first firm to insure the lives of animals exclusively, will write policies up to $5,000 on dogs (mutts excluded) aged six months to nine years. Potential canine insurees: 10 million...