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...Deprived of his majority, Constantine Karamanlis headed out to the royal residence at Dekeleia, handed King Paul his resignation and, along with it. a recommendation for parliamentary dissolution and new elections. After five years of steady leadership provided by Papagos and Karamanlis. Greece seemed headed back into its old slough of political instability...
...making its turbid case for the golden rule, this film preaches with the earnestness of a morality play, but its melodramatic heights seldom attain those of Little Orphan Annie. Wallowing Methodically in his Slough of Despond, Sal Mineo-pouting, simpering, and rolling his eyeballs on the rocky road to manhood-is singularly unconvincing as a meek and mild sort of Michelangelo angel who is all set to inherit the earth...
...Infections after burns delay healing, make skin grafts slough off faster, and may turn a superficial burn into a deep one. Researchers at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, searching for a locally applied antiseptic that would kill germs without destroying tissue, report best results with a weak solution of chlorhexidine, now use it in preference to all other methods of treating burns and scalds...
...effort to plant the seedbed of a viable economy, and that they cannot insist upon sewing too fine a seam in doing it. To put it another way and quite simply, the United Kingdom has its back to the wall in its Spartan efforts to climb out of the slough of despond, and there is no use crying over spilt milk; whilst, if they are but allowed in their own way to put the best face on it they can, the country must eventually be able to stand again on its own bottom, though we cannot expect to let them...
Behind the President's own stand was a subtle change in his philosophy. Four years ago Eisenhower took office determined to decentralize Government functions. Now he believes that decentralization has gone about as far as it can. Rather than slough off remaining responsibilities, he told a Washington conference of the Advertising Council, the Administration should provide the "massive single leadership that is necessary and then keep the Federal Government out of operations so far as it is possible...