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This week the French National Assembly voted into law the long-disputed electoral reform bill sponsored by stubborn little Premier Henri Queuille. Voting 332 to 248, the Assembly overrode the French Senate which had twice before rejected the bill. The new system of voting, which modifies France's proportional-representation system (TIME, April 16), is designed to give the least possible chance at the polls to Communists and Gaullists, but to favor the third force coalition. The bill clears the way for general elections in June. Most likely date: June...
...Moslem tribesmen, apparently with Pakistan's sanction, raided Kashmir in 1947, Nehru refused to turn the other cheek. He ordered the Indian army to move and restore order. Cried he: "Aggression of every type must be resisted." Since then, largely on legalistic grounds which add up to a stubborn "They started it," Nehru has refused all U.N. proposals to settle the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan (TIME...
...Even stubborn Earle C. Anthony finally agreed to sit down with the union negotiators, but early this week the pickets were still parading in front of his station KFI-TV. The owners of Los Angeles' other six TV stations had already peacefully squiggled their signatures on contracts certifying Television Authority as their performers' sole union representative. For George Heller, 45-year-old executive secretary of TvA* the contracts marked the end of a rugged six-month organizing campaign...
...script sacrifices them all to Hope's aggressive pursuit of anything for a laugh, from trip-hammer wisecracks to all-out slapstick. Since almost anything he does gets a laugh, none but the most stubborn Runyon fans should mind. Best scene: Hope trying to sneak the clothes off a department-store manikin without attracting attention from the crowd outside the window...
...week's end the President had seen his fill of surf and cloud, sun and sand, readied himself to fly home three days earlier than planned. So that no one would think stubborn Harry Truman was worried about the trouble over RFC or the bitter attacks in Congress, Press Secretary Joe Short pointedly announced that Margaret would be visiting Washington; the President was hurrying back home just to see her before she left to go back to New York...