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...Tory Government of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker took the final steps last week to oust the Bank of Canada's Governor James E. Coyne. After a month-long fight during which tight-money Banker Coyne criticized government fiscal policies and the government charged Coyne with voting himself an overly big pension, the Commons approved a 46-word bill firing Coyne. From the sidelines. Banker Coyne accused Diefenbaker of being an "evil genius" who, with "unbridled malice and vindictiveness." had set out to destroy him in order to install a yes man at the bank and proceed on a ruinous...
West Berlin's bouncy Mayor Willy Brandt, 47, has been picking up pointers from the career of Jack Kennedy. Last week, as he pushed his campaign to oust octogenarian West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, the Socialist standard-bearer confessed that his attractive wife, Rut, was expecting a third child just about election time...
...leftists, who struggle constantly to oust Cabinet moderates like seasoned Finance Minister Komla Gbedemah, derive most of their power from positions in the ruling Convention People's Party, which Founder Nkrumah has neglected as his official presidential duties increased. Sensing a squeeze, Osagyefo this month announced that he personally, was taking over the party's top job. Now he could plunge ahead with the main goal: "I see before my mind's eye," he declared resoundingly, "a great monolithic party . . . united and strong, spreading its protective wings over the whole of Africa from Algiers in the north...
...basis of past times, Bruce be the hombre to oust in both 50 100-yard freestyles. Hunter's 22.4 Dartmouth and 49.2 against highly touted Ashley Norfleet indicate rough seas for Eli Bill (22.9) and Bob Guthrie (50.3). , Hunter has been known to swim (University record...
...restore "order, unity, law and integrity" to the Congo. As a gimmick to appeal to African sentiment, Khrushchev proposed that the U.N. force should be replaced by an all-African commission, comprising nations with troops currently in the Congo, that would work with Gizenga to "terminate foreign interference" and "oust the aggressors...