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...rare rebuff to tradition, every horse in the field cleared the first jump of England's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. But at the halfway mark, only 19 of the 31 starters were still running, and at the finish there were only seven. Even Mr. What, the tough little Irish gelding that had taken all the other jumps cleanly, almost came a cropper at the last hedge. But Mr. What kept his balance and won the richest Grand National ever ($46,858) by 30 lengths. In second place: last year's third-place horse, Tiberetta...
...this rebuff, Félix Gaillard promptly suspended discussion of the military and economic aid pact that France has been negotiating with Tunisia. Simultaneously, he dispatched a pair of personal aides-one of them Army General Georges Buch-alet-to Tunis with a private message for Bourguiba. Bourguiba took the general's presence as an implied threat, coldly refused to receive him. After a two-day impasse the two French envoys, their message undelivered, flew back to Paris. "An affront to France," cried Paris newspapers...
...surface the plan marks a major rebuff for 52-year-old Mikhail Pervukhin, who only three months ago was appointed the U.S.S.R.'s chief economic planner. (Khrushchev's report failed to mention Pervukhin's name, but urged the abolition of his job.) As for Khrushchev himself, his position in the Soviet hierarchy, though dented by Hungary and Poland, seemed to be changing more and more from first among equals to just plain first...
Miss Ward attributed much of the present Suez crisis to the State Department's "complete rebuff" of President Nasser "I am still unconvinced that he wants to become a satellite in the Soviet orbit...
...refrain" from extending an invitation. In heavily Catholic Massachusetts, the house of representatives in a protest resolution said that an invitation to Tito "would be an act of subservience." In predominantly Protestant Washington State, the state senate resolved that Tito's visit would be "a rebuff to the brave Hungarian and Polish people who are resisting Communist pressures." The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars took similar stands. Impressed by their mail. Congressmen in a petition urged President Eisenhower to keep Tito out. Wisconsin's Representative Alvin E. O'Konski even said he would consider...