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...Gerrard's Cross in Beaconsfield, recovered control of his Humber Hawk and sped on. Haled to Beaconsfield to face a magistrate last week, Nye made his feeble excuses: "I realize I should have stopped but I was anxious to avoid . . . publicity." The court brushed the plea aside, slapped a fine of $166.10 (including costs) on Britain's most freewheeling public figure and took away his license for three months...
...time when the tactical situation seemed to demand a show of determination in the face of the confident Communists at Geneva, Sir Winston's head seemed a dream with thoughts of compromise, concessions and soft words. Speaking last week to the Primrose League.* Churchill entered an unexpected personal plea for the establishment of "links" with Russia "which, in spite of all distractions and perils and contradictions, would convince the Russian people and the Soviet government that we wish them peace, happiness and ever-increasing and ever-expanding prosperity . . . and that we long to see them play a proud...
...Good Companion. In North Sacramento, charged with drunken driving, Daniel Bean pleaded innocent, was asked if he had any witnesses to support his plea, got six months in jail when he replied: "No sir, judge. They were all drunker than...
...McDonald's plea for a step-up in public works found a responsive audience -especially since the President's economic advisers have recently advanced the same idea. Ike was not prepared to go as far as McDonald, who wanted public works projects increased by a whopping $5 billion a year. The President's advisers have told him that state and local governments could-and should-spend 50% more on public works (last year they spent $7 billion), and any major increase in such state and local effort would call for more federal participation. President Eisenhower may urge...
...clauses be modified. After the strike began on Dec. i, Dave Beck, the Teamsters' international boss, asked both sides to arbitrate. Management's answer was that its right to use the Government mails was hardly a subject for arbitration. The local union also rejected Beck's plea and the strike broke out in violence. Store windows were smashed, paint and gasoline bombs thrown against cars of customers and nonstrikers...