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...government approached last week's elections to the Senate and the House. In the nine years since he was swept into office on an anti-Socialist wave, the Prime Minister has given his country prosperity, has whipped rising inflation, boosted pensions, introduced a national health service, proved a stout friend of the U.S. and Britain. But stolid, unimaginative Bob Menzies himself has never been personally popular. His chronic testiness ("He must be drunk or paid to come here as a pest," he angrily shouted at a heckler) has not helped him much. When his car was spattered with eggs...
Then there was a meeting of the seven full professors. Again, Briggs was on top of the situation. First he listened patiently to several reasons why the proposal did not make sense.... Brockberg, a stout and voluble man who lectured to large sophomore groups because he generalized easily and had a dramatic manner, said he had heard of a dissertation done at the University of Chicago which seriously questioned the thesis behind one of Greg's best known books. And Coombs, a dour and melancholy man who got his final promotion on the strength of a book he never managed...
...Auburn (3-0-1)-flawed its 17-game winning streak when Georgia Tech threw up a stout defense and managed a late score to gain...
Married. Granville James Leveson Gower, 39, fifth Earl Granville and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; and Boon Aileen Plunket, 26, a granddaughter and heiress of the late Beer Tycoon (Guinness Stout) Ernest Guinness; in the Queen's Chapel, London...
Milwaukee, Oct. 8--Gil McDougald's 10th inning home run ruined a magnificent pitching effort by stout-hearted Warren Spahn today, as a 4-3 Yankee victory sent the New York-Milwaukee series into a seventh game...