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...Make It Prompt. Next day at noon, the Supreme Court chamber was again charged with suspense. The overhead clocks ticked off the minutes as spectators moved quietly to the handful of seats and a hundred more lined up outside. U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers slipped in quietly. So did some wives and children of the Justices. Soon two page boys in knickers and high black socks mounted the bench, pushed the nine chairs back and forth to see if they rolled easily, made sure that each Justice was provided with his customary pencil, scissors and paper...
...note-unchallenged by the big-talking Communists. The Chinese Communist threats to conquer Formosa, and the stepped-up attacks on the offshore Nationalist island of Quemoy (see FOREIGN NEWS), last week brought an equally powerful presidential warning that the U.S. would not hesitate to counterattack, and it brought prompt deployment of U.S. fighting forces. New element in the Quemoy warning: the U.S. was prepared to retaliate by bombing the attacker's home bases if necessary...
According to the script prepared with loving care by the men around De Gaulle, the drama unveiled last week in the Place de la Republique was to be a demonstration of popular affection for De Gaulle-a stirring show that would prompt Frenchmen everywhere to vote oui in the Sept. 28 referendum on the new constitution. But when the show finally opened, it flopped...
Bets, under British law, are not contracts, and disputes over them cannot be taken to court. Instead, Britain's racing fans toss their problems to Editor Clements and the daily Sporting Life. They get straight, prompt answers, which in track circles have all the authority that courts give to true legal questions; Editor Clements guesses that to date more than $1,500,000 "and innumerable pints of beer" have ridden on his decisions...
...supposed to be back on U.S. television with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. But no sooner had Domenico landed than he learned that back home in Rome his wife had given birth to a son. Marco. Tempted though he was to fly home for a prompt look at his heir, Domenico decided that the show must go on. He showed up at the Sullivan show, and to no one's surprise, sang Nel Blu. Domenico already has another song written to celebrate the baby's arrival. Its title: lo (I). Says he: "It means 'What...