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...Surigao Strait was the last time the historic battle line formation was to be used in naval warfare, and Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison writes its epitaph: "One can imagine the ghosts of all great admirals from Raleigh to Jellicoe standing at attention as Battle Line went into oblivion...
...cult has developed, the martini has suffered abominations that would have doomed a lesser drink. Johnny Solon, an unlamented mixologist at the old Waldorf bar, diluted the basic gin and vermouth with orange juice and called it a Bronx-a cheerless drink now well on its way to oblivion. Others have polluted the martini with grenadine, mint sprigs, anchovies, crystallized violets, sherry, absinthe, and even Chanel No. 5. They are still at it: last week Washingtonians were drinking something called a "dillytini"-a martini with a two-inch green bean, pickled in dill vinegar-which tastes, according to one experimenter...
...Suntan Vote. Never before had a British party won three straight general elections without coalition support, but there was little doubt that Macmillan, a master of political maneuver, had chosen the top psychological moment. The Tories' Suez fiasco and its architect, Sir Anthony Eden, were fading into oblivion; the Macmillan government was basking in the new Anglo-American warmth generated by President Eisenhower's triumphal tour. Even the Queen's prospective baby and the sensationally brilliant summer seemed to count in the government's favor. Macmillan, complained Labor Party Chairman Barbara Castle, was "rushing...
...greater resources to develop new products. The unions are also up in arms. Last week the British Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians issued a broadside that likened planes shown at Farnborough to "dashing debutantes at the Queen Charlotte Ball: one appearance in lights and white, followed by oblivion." The association blamed the industry's decline on "unparalleled government muddle, management inefficiency, and a seemingly complete disregard for Britain's welfare." One of the union's biggest worries: this major British industry (total employment: 239,800) is laying off workers at the rate...
...federation produces almost a third of the world's natural rubber and tin; its per capita income ($350) is the highest in Asia, and it boasts one telephone for every 100 persons (U.S. ratio: one for every 2½). With the ten-year-old Communist insurrection spluttering into oblivion in the northern jungles and with the nation's rice crop the largest in its history, voters swarmed to the polls last week on foot, and by car, boat, pedicab and elephant. The result: a landslide victory for Tengku Abdul Rahman, whose Alliance Party captured 73 seats in Parliament...