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With only one exception-onetime M.R.P. Premier Pierre Pflimlin, who dropped 60% of his support-leaders of the non-Communist opposition either were defeated outright or lagged far behind U.N.R. candidates. Independent Paul Reynaud. 84, last prewar Premier and formerly a supporter of Charles de Gaulle, was badly beaten by De Gaulle's hand-picked candidate. Resistance Hero Jules Houcke, 64. who did not even make a single public campaign speech. Former Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, who commands a smooth local machine as longtime mayor of Arras, ran 1,200 votes behind a little-known Gaullist. In Normandy, former...
Just as serious as strikes are slowdowns, hangovers from the prewar days of heavy unemployment when work was spread thin to make more jobs. Even though today Britain has virtually full employment, there is always the desire to go slow and earn some overtime. The theme song of Peter Sellers' movie satire on trade unions...
...ambiguous. After he and his wife and two daughters left Russia in 1921, leaving Boris and his brother Alexander behind, he never again saw Russia. In Berlin he became a success all over again, was able to collect a sociable circle of intellectuals and almost re-create the happy prewar Moscow days. Yet shortly before the Nazis took over Germany, Pasternak tried to return to Russia, could not get in, went to England instead. He spent the war years as a sick and half-forgotten man, still hoping to go back to Russia, and died in Oxford...
When it comes to running things, Goer-gen seems taller. The son of a small can dy shop proprietor, Goergen started out as an accountant, and in the aftermath of World War II was named director of a small fragment of the prewar Thyssen steel empire. Within ten years he had built it into Germany's second largest steel company - only to be booted out with $600,000 in severance pay when aris tocratic Frau Amelie Thyssen, the com pany's largest stockholder, decided that the brash Goergen was not her dish...
Rumanian grain production has matched prewar output only six times in the last 17 years. Horse meat in Bucharest is plentiful, but beef is scarce. Beef is also short in Hungary, which last year shipped $3,200,000 worth of cattle to West Germany in exchange for industrial goods...