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For the past 29 years "attending physician" to Congress, Dr. George Calver, 69, summed up the greatest heart-tiring hazards to his 531 charges: 1) constituents who ply their Congressman or Senator with heavy dinners, 2) Washington hostesses who stuff him with rich viands, 3) filibustering. Of the last hazard...
Nearly all of Morocco's problems stem from its relations with France, and Morocco's man of balances has the delicate task of steering between the intemperate demands of Arab nationalists and the soberer counsel of those who recognize that France still has a considerable hold on Morocco...
Distributing Favors. Falangist Labor Minister José Antonio Giron, an ambitious orator who has been a Cabinet member for 16 of his 44 years, was dropped; militant Falange Chief José Luis de Arrese was shifted to the Ministry of Housing; José Solis Ruiz, the new secretary general of...
Across the South-in Atlanta, Mobile, Birmingham, Tallahassee, Miami, New Orleans-Negro leaders look toward Montgomery, Ala., the cradle of the Confederacy, for advice and counsel on how to gain the desegregation that the U.S. Supreme Court has guaranteed them. The man whose word they seek is not a judge...
He is proud that his grandfather was a Scottish crofter, or tenant farmer (he keeps a picture of the croft on his desk). In 1843 grandfather left his farm on the barren Isle of Arran and walked to London, there founded the famed publishing house, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Macmillan'...