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ROME--Antonio Segni, veteran Christian Democrat middle-roader, formed a one-party minority government Sunday that leaned a little to the right...
...President could afford to shrug. The out-in-the-open criticism had somehow helped to clear the air. Ike was working hard on his congressional program. At the same time, changes in the Republican leadership of both House and Senate, which seemed at the time to work against Middle-Roader Eisenhower, had actually given him better organization to work with in both houses. As rarely before in more than six years of the Eisenhower Administration, the Republican President and the Republican members of Congress were behaving as if they belonged to the same party, were united behind the President...
...World of Strangers, by Nadine Gordimer. South Africa's best novelist probes the fate of a middle-of-the-roader trapped in the pitiless struggle of white v. black...
...members in the Assembly had joined him in voting to bring down Gaillard. Having given Bidault and his policy of even harsher prosecution of the Algerian war a chance, President René Coty next turned to big (6 ft. 2 in.), earnest René Pleven, a middle-of-the-roader who has suggested that the ideal relationship between France and her former colonies would be "a federation of republics...
Jury of Three. The choice of Lopez Mateos came as something of a surprise. Three other Cabinet Ministers-rightists in the P.R.I.-were considered the leading contenders. But in choosing his successor, Middle-of-the-Roader Ruiz Cortines listened long to ex-Presidents Lazaro Cardenas and Miguel Aleman, who control the left and right wings of the P.R.I. Leftist Cardenas, with his millions of farm and labor backers, was clearly the more persuasive-and he vetoed the frontrunners. Lopez Mateos, not committed to left or right, was acceptable to all three President-makers...