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...down by Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats for a reunification of the long-divided Italian Social ists. While owlish Pietro Nenni beamed down from the red-streamered dais of Venice's Teatro San Marco, 1,000 Congress delegates overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for a prompt merger with the Social Democrats...
...first flurry of tongues was all about Lieut. Commander Michael Parker, wartime shipmate, good friend and private secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh. Last week a London newspaper reported what palace officials had known for six months -that Mike and his wife were separating. Gossipists were prompt to link Parker's name (without foundation) to that of another woman, and the news was duly radioed to the royal yacht Britannia, on which both the Duke and Parker were approaching Gibraltar at the end of a four-month, globe-girdling tour of the Commonwealth. Soon afterward the palace announced that...
...election to be held this week in North Lewisham is the first of eight which, during the next two months, may well determine the Tories' immediate future. Any serious reverses in this "little general election" (as most Britons are calling it) could result in a prompt full general election. Middle-class North Lewisham, a marginal district that gave the Tories a mere 3,236-vote plurality (in a total vote of 40,904) in 1955, might cause the Tories to lose a seat...
...widest single-day break in eight months. The market rallied Wednesday, until a selling surge was set off by President Eisenhower's warning that the Government might have to impose wage and price controls. By that time not even Secretary of Commerce Weeks's prompt assurance that no controls were planned was enough to stop the downtrend. Next day the market dropped through the 1957 low set two days before. At week's end the market steadied, but the Dow-Jones average ended the day at 466, nearly 11 points off from the previous week. Wall Streeters...
...chewing over their ideas, looking for the best solution. Says Galvin: "What we have accomplished is to create an atmosphere where people don't mind making unusual suggestions in conferences. We've found that we can sometimes get through certain problems more quickly. A rash idea may prompt a useful...