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...automotive center 30 miles from London where experts detect a swing to Labor after 13 years of Tory majorities. As Luton goes, said the pundits, so may most other industrial areas where Labor has traditionally been strongest. Speaking more to Luton's floating voter than the faithful in Perth, the Prime Minister used every crossroads stopover last week to inveigh against the Labor Party's "card-index, button-pushing society." With a socialist government, said he, "we would be like puppets on long strings of red tape, with the strings pulled in Whitehall." To his listeners' delight...
...Ababa. I want to wish you success to your leaders there. Good luck to all of you in Africa." Cooper flew seven times over Red China, the first U.S. astronaut to pass above that hostile land. He saw smoke curling from chimneys in Tibet, the glow of lights in Perth, Australia, even spotted his present home town of Clear Lake, Texas, near Houston's new Manned Spacecraft Center. In all. Cooper sped over more than 100 nations. To recover him promptly if he came down on foreign soil, the U.S. State Department got advance promises from some 80 embassies...
...Overwhelming their competition at the Commonwealth Games, Australia's smooth-stroking swimmers were as hot as the searing sun that sent the temperature soaring to 103° in Perth's Perry Lakes Stadium. In two days the Aussies smashed three world records: Dawn Fraser lowered her own women's 110-yd. freestyle mark to 59.6 sec., and anchored Australia's 440-yd. relay team to a record 4 min. 11.1 sec. clocking; Murray Rose paced the men to a record 8 min. 13.5 sec. for the 880-yd. relay...
...Perth, Australia
...Arthur, Conservative member of Parliament for the Scot-constituency of Perth and East Perthshire, left the Summer School's International Seminar last and returned to London to vote on a motion of censure introduced against his party by Labour Party leader, Hugh Gaitskell...