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Ontario Conservative W. Earl Rowe, acting leader of his party, scoffed at Harris' reasoning. Said Rowe: "I do not believe it will help any Canadian magazine." Later, in the usually staid Senate, Ontario's Norman Lambert and Manitoba's Thomas Crerar accused their own Liberal party of abandoning its free-trade traditions. But the objections were overrun by the impatient Liberal drive for a vote. In three hours, Harris' carefully timed bill cleared the House; the Senate rubber-stamped it in a single sitting...
...staid weeklies enthused as much as the daily press. Wrote Pharos in the Spectator: "She was in fact as intelligent as she was pleasant as she was pretty." The Sunday Observer thoughtfully wrote that "the total effect is a personality that is curiously lovable because whether in life or on the screen it is so remote from any form of viciousness or meanness." Only the august Times held out, printing not a word of the Monroe presence in London. It was promptly taken to task in the double-domed, socialist New Statesman and Nation: "The Times is a news paper...
...shuffle of Chrysler's top command capped a long list of changes aimed at strengthening the company. Chrysler had already scrapped the traditionally staid Chrysler lines for the "Forward Look," broken its highly centralized corporate structure into more flexible autonomous divisions, built eight new plants, including Detroit's most highly automated engine factory, allocated more than $1 billion for capital improvements during the next five years...
...staid Swiss capital of Bern last week, plainclothesmen roamed the hotels, and scores of policemen accompanied by equally alert police dogs stood guard over the picturesque old town hall. Inside the town hall, which had been temporarily transformed into a courtroom, still more police kept a sharp eye on a polyglot crowd composed of some 120 newsmen, dozens of Iron Curtain refugees, and "observers" from Communist Rumania, China and Yugoslavia...
...boxing sinful? Two Roman Catholic moralists are slugging it out over the issue, while Italy roots at the ringside. In the staid church fortnightly. Palestra del Clero, Jesuit Alfredo Boschi has been conducting a campaign against the sport as a violation of the commandment "Thou shalt not kill." "Professional boxing can not be justified from a moral viewpoint but must be condemned as something gravely illicit in itself," he wrote. "It not only produces but aims to produce serious injuries which can become permanent and can lead to death...