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...Tense Week. The nation longed for a stable government that would set about putting things right. Two weeks before the election, the likelihood seemed to be another minority regime-a Pearson plurality, needing makeshift accommodations with splinter parties to govern. Instead, when a record 7,800,000 voters went to the polls last week, in a countryside where the last blasts of winter were still being felt in many places, the voters came within an ace of giving Mike Pearson the majority of 133 of the House of Commons' 265 seats. His Liberals won 128 seats to the Tories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: A New Leader | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

Tuft's baseball team will enter Splinter Stadium today feeling both hopeful and honored. Playing their first contest of the year, the Jumbos have been entertaining sweet dreams of ending six years of Crimson hegemony...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Diamond Squad Battles Tufts in Home Opener | 4/9/1963 | See Source »

Should any of these potential starters fail to make it, Shepard can move in Bob St. George. The trouble with St. a right fielder to use as an infielder. In George is that he may be too useful as Harvard's Splinter Stadium field, right is a notoriously tricky pasture. It takes a man with St. George's extraordinary fielding skills to effectively control files in the area...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Diamond Team Has Replacement Problem; Pitching Staff Could Be Major Strength | 3/27/1963 | See Source »

...return in 1958 he has ended the Algerian War, broken the OAS, cemented the tie between Bonn and Paris so that it might outlast his own life, released most of French Africa from colonialism, presided over the economic resurgence of his country, ended the paralytic reign of the French splinter-party system, and initiated the building of a unified France under a popularly-elected President. This is rather more than most men have been able to achieve in the space of 11 years...

Author: By Jonathan R. Walton, | Title: Divorce-Kennedy Style | 2/16/1963 | See Source »

...backing from the U.S. and the Afro-Asian nations, the U.N. was determined to dictate a settlement to Tshombe and make it stick. If it fails, the rest of the Congo, starved of the riches that enable Katanga to account for 65% of the country's exports, could splinter into a score of warring tribal domains. Already a corps of 100 Central Government functionaries was flying into Elisabethville to take charge of Katanga's administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: The India-Rubber Man | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

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