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First there was the inconsequential Post and Telegraph Ministry budget, on which Mendès impatiently demanded a vote of confidence. He won-but by the narrowest margin of his meteoric, five-month tenure: 321 to 207. Later in the week, on the eve of his take-off for a ten-day visit to Canada and the U.S., Mendès asked the Assembly to postpone debate on the ugly North African situation until his return. Again he won-but by a still narrower margin...
London's conservative DAILY TELEGRAPH: President Eisenhower is still a popular President. It seems likely it was his abiding prestige and personal intervention in the campaign that stopped the movement away from the Republican Party [from] becoming the landslide that was being freely predicted...
Since Beaumont's day, however, Britain's Property Acts have wiped out most of the manorial lord's "perks" (or perquisites;. Today the best a lord of the manor can hope for is a few pounds a year from public utilities for putting telegraph poles on his property. But the deeds are still inscribed on heavy, ancient parchments that make magnificent souvenirs. Unfortunately, the deeds cannot be taken out of the country, which discouraged Americans last week from scooping up such handsome titles as Lord of the Manor of Overhall and Netherhall, or Callis Metholds and Wimbolds...
...could not resist adding that 85% of the people he had heard from by mail and telegraph agreed with his original point illustrated by the dog story. A bystander at the airport yelled: "You were right the first time, Charlie." Wilson grinned and waved, but he did not stop to tell another story...
...firms, pension trusts, college endowment funds and other institutional investors, found all of them were deep blue chips. At the head of the list was Standard Oil (N.J.), which was held in 506 portfolios. The others: General Electric (417 portfolios); E.I. du Pont (393); Union Carbide (391); American Telephone & Telegraph (387); General Motors (360); Gulf Oil (341); Westinghouse Electric (334); Texas Co. (319); Kennecott Copper (301); Phillips Petroleum (282); Socony-Vacuum (269); American Gas & Electric (269); Standard Oil of California (264); Sears, Roebuck...