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...Laurent's decision to campaign again at the ripe age of 75 was mainly influenced by a marked improvement in his health during the past year. A year ago, after a successful but exhausting world tour and a difficult legislative session, the Prime Minister was feeling his age, and dropped a series of hints that he would retire unless he felt a lot better soon. That prospect was more than agreeable to Mme. St. Laurent, who worried about her lawyer-husband's late entry into politics (at 59) and has never made any secret of her willingness...
...feeling that it may be more convenient for them to conform to some of the rules and practices of a civilized world community." Vigilance with Hope. Since the West was united and the Soviet Union had softened its tactics, Secretary Dulles and President Eisenhower agreed that the time was ripe for four-power talks by the heads of government. But both approached the conference table warily...
...Lutheran Church. Charged last month with neglecting the spiritual duties of the church's Foreign Bureau, run by him, Niemöller wrote a bitter letter of resignation to famed Bishop Otto Dibelius, tossed in a threat that unless the charges are withdrawn, "I will hold the time ripe to expose the insupportable intrigues that have taken place within the church...
...first column, the San Diego Union's new Women's Sports Editor Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, retired as the world's greatest lady tennistar at a ripe old 21, showed that sports punditry is as easy for her as smashing a tennis ball down an opponent's throat...
...still at its height, he walked Manhattan's 57th Street with his canvases under his arm, vainly trying to interest the dealers in his own new approach to painting. But when the slap and dab of abstract-expressionism began to become a bore, the time was ripe for Individualist Hultberg...